Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the bankrupt company was an 'affiliated employer' under Art. 219(4) SchKG for pension-fund bankruptcy priority.
Decisione estratta
An employer is affiliated only if its employees are insured with a pension institution it founded or to which it entered into an affiliation agreement; a mere group relationship, employee transfers, or bookkeeping references are insufficient.
Motivazione estratta
The purpose and history of the privilege point to a real affiliation in occupational pension law. Here, the debtor was not the founder, its employees were not originally beneficiaries, the pension institution had not opened its beneficiary circle, and no concrete affiliation agreement or equivalent conduct was shown.