Social Affairs & Equal Opportunities (December 2007- April 2009)

IN 2007 DG Employment commissioned GHK to assess the costs and benefits of providing social protection to self-employed men and women across the 27 EU Member States in the context of revising the relevant EU legislation (Directive 86/613/EEC). Subsequently a review of the social protection situation in relation to self-employed and assisting spouses was undertaken in the EU Member States and the costs and benefits of the current situation and proposed changes were identified.

Study results are integrated into the Commission’s IA available here. 
(referenced as the ‘EPEC’ study)