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Belgium:
Employment injuries:
Workers who are submitted to social security, apprentices and those to whom the Crown has granted status.
Occupational diseases:
As above (except those to whom the Crown has granted employment injury status) and also trainees, even unpaid, pupils and students exposed to risk because of their instruction.Denmark:
All salaried workers and certain self-employed (in fishing and navigation) persons. Trainees or any other persons spending time at a training centre or at a workshop or office because of their study or vocational training. Children affected with a disease or congenital illness caused by the work of their father or mother. Germany:
Employed persons, some self-employed, students, pupils, kindergarten children, persons undergoing rehabilitation and some other persons. Greece:
Employees and assimilated. Spain:
Employees. France:
Persons working in any capacity, in any place for one or more employers. Ireland:
Employed persons and some trainees. Iceland:
All employees,
self-employed persons unless they voluntary exempt themselves,
apprentices,
persons engaged in rescue operations,
athletes participating in organised athletic activities,
patients receiving treatment in medical institutions,
persons engaged in household work may voluntarily ensure themselves.Italy:
Salaried workers and certain categories of self-employed workers. Liechenstein:
Employees, including home workers, apprentices, trainees, volunteers and persons employed in firms providing protected employment or employing invalids.
Non-occupational injuries: full-time and part-time employees, who work at least 12 hours per week with one employer.
Voluntary insurance: self-employed persons and family members working with them who are not obligated to take out insurance.Luxembourg:
Persons who are engaged in a professional wage-earning activity or the self-employed, those who attend a vocational training or a programme for their integration or reintegration.
Covered are also, among others: pupils, students and teaching assistants, delegates attending meetings of the professional chambers or of the social security institutions, and persons who take part in emergency relief actions.Netherlands:
Not applicable. Norway:
National Insurance (folketrygden):
All employees, fishermen even when self-employed, conscripts, students and trainees, are covered. Freelancers and self-employed can take out voluntary insurance.
Occupational Injury Insurance (yrkesskadeforsikring):
All employees.Austria:
All employees in paid employment, trainees.
Family members working in the enterprises of self-employed persons.
Persons engaged in a trade or business (including self-employed craftsmen).
Certain assimilated self-employed persons, such as teachers, musicians and artists.
Persons who do not have a formal employment contract but essentially work as an employee (e.g. no own organisational structure, perform their services themselves).
Pupils and students.Portugal:
All employees and self-employed. Finland:
All employees, farmers, some students and trainees.
Self-employed persons may join voluntarily.Sweden:
Everybody who is gainfully occupied is insured. United Kingdom:
Employed earners.
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