Key legal question
Whether contribution claims for 1993-1996 were time-barred
Extracted holding
The claims for 1993-1996 were subject to a five-year limitation period and had expired before the 2003 enforcement step.
Extracted reasoning
Periodic employer/employee pension contributions under Art. 41 BVG are subject to five years. The latest relevant maturity was in 1997 for 1996 contributions, so the period expired in 2002; only the March 2003 debt-collection step interrupted prescription too late.