30As regards, in particular, the field of social security, the Court has held that EU law does not, in principle, detract from the powers of the Member States to organise their social security systems. For the purposes of assessing whether an activity carried out in the context of a social security scheme is non-economic in nature, it makes an overall assessment of the scheme at issue and, to that end, takes the following into consideration: the pursuit, by the scheme, of a social objective, its application of the principle of solidarity, whether the activity carried out is non-profit-making, and State supervision of that activity (see, to that effect, judgments of 17 February 1993, Poucet and Pistre, C‑159/91 and C‑160/91, EU:C:1993:63, paragraphs 8 to 10, 14, 15 and 18; of 22 January 2002, Cisal, C‑218/00, EU:C:2002:36, paragraphs 34, 38 and 43; of 16 March 2004, AOK Bundesverband and Others, C‑264/01, C‑306/01, C‑354/01 and C‑355/01, EU:C:2004:150, paragraphs 47 to 50; of 5 March 2009, Kattner Stahlbau, C‑350/07, EU:C:2009:127, paragraphs 35, 38 and 43; and of 3 March 2011, AG2R Prévoyance, C‑437/09, EU:C:2011:112, paragraphs 43 to 46).
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