Article 2 6

6.   Member States may exempt from the application of this Directive the servicing of a creditor’s rights under a credit agreement, or of the credit agreement itself, carried out by public notaries and bailiffs as defined by national law or lawyers as defined in Article 1(2), point (a), of Directive 98/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (21) when conducting credit servicing activities as part of their profession.