35That interpretation is also supported by the analysis of the objective of Article 6 of the Rome Convention, which is to guarantee adequate protection to the employee. Thus, as the Court has already stated, the factor of the country in which the employee ‘habitually carries out his work’, set out in Article 6(2)(a) of the Rome Convention, must be given a broad interpretation, while the factor of ‘the place of business through which [the employee] was engaged’, in Article 6(2)(b) thereof, can apply only if the court seised is not in a position to determine the country in which the work is habitually carried out (see Koelzsch, paragraph 43).
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