Article 2 Scope

This Directive covers:

1. (a)

   self-employed workers, namely all persons pursuing a gainful activity for their own account, under the conditions laid down by national law;

2. (b)

   the spouses of self-employed workers or, when and in so far as recognised by national law, the life partners of self-employed workers, not being employees or business partners, where they habitually, under the conditions laid down by national law, participate in the activities of the self-employed worker and perform the same tasks or ancillary tasks.