Key legal question
Whether French contribution periods had to be taken into account when calculating the Swiss AVS old-age pension scale.
Extracted holding
No. The Swiss pension is calculated only on the basis of Swiss contribution periods; the French periods did not have to be counted.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 46(1)(b) of Regulation 1408/71, autonomous calculation of the Swiss pension based on Swiss insurance periods is permitted. Art. 48 of that regulation only applies where foreign insurance periods are shorter than one year, which was not the case here.