35In order to answer the questions raised by the national court, it must be pointed out that Regulation No 1408/71 does not set up a common scheme of social security, but allows different national social security schemes to exist; its sole objective is to ensure the coordination of those schemes. Thus, according to settled case-law, Member States retain the power to organise their social security schemes (see judgment in Case C-212/06 Government of the French Community and Walloon Government [2008] ECR I-1683, paragraph 43, and Case C-503/09 Stewart [2011] ECR I-6497, paragraph 75).
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