40First, it is settled case-law that Regulation No 1408/71 established a system for the coordination of national social security schemes and lay down, in Title II thereof, rules governing the determination of the legislation to be applied. Those rules were intended not only to ensure that the persons concerned are not left without social security cover because there is no legislation which is applicable to them, but also to ensure that the persons concerned are subject to the social security scheme of only one Member State, so that the complications arising from more than one system of national legislation being applicable are avoided (see, to that effect, Case C‑589/10 Wencel EU:C:2013:303, paragraphs 45 and 46 and the case-law cited).
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