Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the direct appeals against the provisional pension regulations were admissible without prior review by the pension supervisory authority and the Federal Administrative Court.
Decisione estratta
The appeals were inadmissible because the prior legal remedies had not been exhausted.
Motivazione estratta
The contested regulations were pension rules subject to the special review mechanism of the LPP: the supervisory authority must examine their conformity, its decision is then appealable to the Federal Administrative Court and only thereafter to the Federal Court.