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8 B 12/16, 8 B 12/16 (8 C 17/16) ECLI:DE:BVerwG:2016:260716B8B12.16.0 AI generated

Effect of health insurance fund closure on insolvency capacity and occupational pension insolvency security contribution liability under BetrAVG

Case Number 8 B 12/16, 8 B 12/16 (8 C 17/16)
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Jurisdiction Germany (DE)
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Outcome Allowed / Granted
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The Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) granted leave to appeal, upholding the appellant’s complaint for fundamental significance under § 132(2)(1) VwGO and permitting the revision proceedings to proceed. The dispute concerns the legal consequences of the valid closure of a statutory health insurance fund pursuant to § 153 SGB V, specifically whether such closure extinguishes the fund’s insolvency capacity and, consequently, the obligation to pay the insolvency security contribution established under § 10(1) and § 17(2) of the German Occupational Pension Act (BetrAVG). The court identified two key legal questions for resolution: whether the closure of a health insurance fund eliminates its insolvency susceptibility, thereby terminating the pre-existing Beitragspflicht, and whether the equivalence principle further restricts the personal scope of entities subject to the insolvency security contribution beyond the statutory limitations defined in § 17(2) BetrAVG.

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§ 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO, § 63 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GKG, § 47 Abs. 1, § 52 Abs. 3 und § 63 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GKG; Effect of health insurance fund closure on insolvency capacity and occupational pension insolvency security contribution liability under BetrAVG: The dispute concerns the legal consequences of the valid closure of a statutory health insurance fund pursuant to § 153 SGB V, specifically whether such closure extinguishes the fund’s insolvency capacity and, consequently, the obligation to pay the insolvency security contribution established under § 10(1) and § 17(2) of the German Occupational Pension Act (BetrAVG). The court identified two key legal questions for resolution: whether the closure of a health insurance fund eliminates its insolvency susceptibility, thereby terminating the pre-existing Beitragspflicht, and whether the equivalence principle further restricts the personal scope of entities subject to the insolvency security contribution beyond the statutory limitations defined in § 17(2) BetrAVG.

Keywords

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liability of pension fund health insurance funds insolvency statutory insurance obligation occupational pension contributions health insurance

Cited Legislation

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§ 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO
Main ground for the verdict, explicitly cited in the order to grant the complaint because the case has fundamental significance.
§ 63 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GKG
3 und § 63 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GKG.
§ 47 Abs. 1, § 52 Abs. 3 und § 63 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GKG
Procedural provisions cited in the order for the determination of the provisional value in dispute (costs/procedure).
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8 C 17/16
Insolvency security contribution liability of a closed statutory health insurance fund and the requirement of absolute insolvency-incapacity for exemption
8 C 5/18
Scope of insolvency security contribution for merged health insurance funds: inapplicability of liability-splitting rules to pre-2010 pension obligations inherited from already insolvent-liable predecessors
2 AZR 966/12
Automatic termination of employment upon statutory health insurance fund closure: Scope of § 164 Abs. 4 SGB V for ordinarily terminable contracts and continued legal existence for liquidation
2 AZR 495/12
Legal effect of health insurance fund closure on employment: statutory termination conditional on rejection of reasonable job offer
3 AZR 410/15
Insolvency pension security: Scope of § 7 Abs. 1a Satz 3 BetrAVG for capital benefits and causal link requirement

Key legal questions extracted by Legislator

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§ 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO

Main ground for the verdict, explicitly cited in the order to grant the complaint because the case has fundamental significance.

§ 47 Abs. 1, § 52 Abs. 3 und § 63 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GKG

Procedural provisions cited in the order for the determination of the provisional value in dispute (costs/procedure).

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Revisionszulassung; Schließung einer Krankenkasse

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Die Beschwerde hat Erfolg. Der Rechtssache kommt die geltend gemachte grundsätzliche Bedeutung gemäß § 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO zu.

Die Beschwerdebegründung führt auf die voraussichtlich im Revisionsverfahren zu klärende Rechtsfrage, ob mit der wirksamen Schließung einer Krankenkasse gemäß § 153 (ggf. i.V.m. §§ 146a, 163 oder 170) des Fünften Buches Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB V) deren Insolvenzfähigkeit entfällt, und ob dies das Erlöschen einer zuvor nach § 10 Abs. 1 und § 17 Abs. 2 des Gesetzes zur Verbesserung der betrieblichen Altersversorgung (Betriebsrentengesetz - BetrAVG) vom 19. Dezember 1974 (BGBl. I S. 3610), zuletzt geändert durch Art. 1 des Gesetzes vom 21. Dezember 2015 (BGBl. I S. 2553), bestehenden Insolvenzsicherungsbeitragspflicht zur Folge hat.

Außerdem wird das Revisionsverfahren voraussichtlich Gelegenheit geben zu klären, ob der Kreis derjenigen, die gemäß § 10 Abs. 1 BetrAVG der Insolvenzsicherungsbeitragspflicht dem Grunde nach unterliegen, durch das Äquivalenzprinzip weitergehend eingeschränkt wird als durch die Begrenzung des persönlichen Anwendungsbereichs der Vorschrift gemäß § 17 Abs. 2 BetrAVG (in unmittelbarer oder, sofern die Voraussetzungen einer Analogie vorliegen sollten, in entsprechender Anwendung).

Die vorläufige Streitwertfestsetzung beruht auf § 47 Abs. 1, § 52 Abs. 3 und § 63 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GKG.