35It that regard, in so far as the referring court emphasises the fact that the employment relationship of a director such as the one in question in the main proceedings is governed, inter alia, by a service contract to act as director, which is not, according to German case-law, a contract of employment, it must be observed, first, that it is clear from the settled case-law of the Court that the nature of the employment relationship under national law is of no consequence as regards whether or not a person is a worker for the purposes of EU law (see, to that effect, judgment in Kiiski, C‑116/06, EU:C:2007:536, paragraph 26 and case-law cited).
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