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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-54/article-11",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2006/54",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-54",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Possibility of deferral as regards self-employed persons",
  "text": "As regards occupational social security schemes for self-employed persons, Member States may defer compulsory application of the principle of equal treatment with regard to:\n(a) determination of pensionable age for the granting of old-age or retirement pensions, and the possible implications for other benefits:\n(i) either until the date on which such equality is achieved in statutory schemes,\n(ii) or, at the latest, until such equality is prescribed by a directive;\n(b) survivors' pensions until Community law establishes the principle of equal treatment in statutory social security schemes in that regard;\n(c) the application of Article 9(1)(i) in relation to the use of actuarial calculation factors, until 1 January 1999 or for Member States whose accession took place after that date until the date that Directive 86/378/EEC became applicable in their territory.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2006/54/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:35.447409+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}