(Judgment) Given that freedom of establishment is not confined to the right to create a single establishment within the Community but includes freedom to set up and maintain, subject to observance of the professional rules of conduct, more than one place of work within the territory of the Member States, Article 52 of the Treaty seeks to facilitate the pursuit of occupational activities throughout the territory of the Member States and consequently precludes national legislation which might inhibit the extension of such activities beyond the territory of a single Member State. Accordingly, it precludes a Member State from requiring contributions to be made to the scheme for self-employed persons by persons already working as self-employed persons in another Member State where they have their habitual residence and are affiliated to a social security scheme, where that obligation is wholly unjustified in that it provides them with no additional social protection.
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C-53/95, [1996] EUECJ C-53/95
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Updated: 03 June 2022; Ref: scu.161524