25In that respect, it should be pointed out that Article 14a(1)(a) of Regulation 1408/71 imposes the preliminary requirement that the person concerned be ‘normally’ self-employed in the territory of a Member State. That obligation assumes that the person concerned habitually carries out significant activities in the territory of the Member State where he is established [see, by analogy, with regard to Article 14(1 )(a) of Regulation No 1408/71 concerning the posting of employed persons, Case C-202/97 Fitzwilliam Executive Search v Bestuur van het Landelijk Instituut Sociale Verzekeringen [2000] ECR I-883, paragraph 45]. Thus, such a person must already have been carrying out his activity for some time at the moment when he wishes to take advantage of the provision in question. Similarly, during the period in which he works in the territory of another Member State, that person must continue to maintain, in his State of origin, the necessary means to carry on his activity so as to be in a position to pursue it on his return.
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