30The fact that civil-law partnerships, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, operate separately vineyards that belong to them or are leased by them (also separately), that each of them uses its own means of production almost exclusively and employs its own workers, that they conduct themselves as such outwardly independently in relation to their suppliers, public authorities and, to a certain extent, their customers, reflects the fact that each of those partnerships carries out an activity in its own name, on its own behalf and under its own responsibility.
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