31Since the essential characteristic of an employment relationship within the meaning of Article 39 EC is the fact that for a certain period of time a person performs services for and under the direction of another person in return for which he receives remuneration, any activity which a person performs outside a relationship of subordination must be classified as an activity pursued in a self-employed capacity for the purposes of Article 43 EC (see Case C-268/99 Jany and Others [2001] ECR I-8615, paragraph 34 and the decisions cited there).
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