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The Europe 2020 Strategy recognises entrepreneurship and self-employment as key forachieving its objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Although the contribution ofself-employment to total employment growth in recent years has been limited1, they hold asignificant share in the group of professionally active persons. According to the annual results ofthe European Union Labour Force Survey 2011, self-employed persons accounted for 15.1 % oftotal EU27 employment in 2011.Self-employment takes different forms in the 27 Member States of the European Union andcovers a wide range of categories of workers, active in different sectors. The freedom ofmovement for persons, which is one of the cornerstones of the European Union and enshrined inits Treaties, is not confined to employed persons but also extends to self-employed persons in theframework of the freedom of establishment and the freedom to supply services. In addition to thisArticle, 48 TFEU provides for the adoption of measures in the field of social security as arenecessary to provide freedom of movement for workersŽ.2 To this end, arrangements shall bemade to secure for employed and self-employed migrant workers and their dependantsŽ.3This makes the group of self-employed persons a subject of EU social security coordination law …and a very interesting one in fact! First of all because originally Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71preceding the EC Regulation 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems onlycovered workers. Although this was changed in July 1982, when its scope was extended to selfemployedpersons4, some of the current issues in the coordination of social security systems canstill be explained by having a look at its historical background. And secondly because thedifferences in the social security systems for self-employed across the Member States havemade social security an area where changes in the institutional framework for self-employedworkers have been most evident in

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