- The unequal treatment of marriage and registered civil partnerships with regard to survivors’ pensions under an occupational pension scheme for civil service employees who have supplementary pensions insurance with the Supplementary Pensions Agency for Federal and Länder Employees (Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder – VBL) is incompatible with Article 3.1 of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz – GG).
- If the privileged treatment of marriage is accompanied by un- favourable treatment of other ways of life, even where these are com- parable to marriage with regard to the life situation provided for and the objectives pursued by the legislation, the mere reference to the re- quirement of protecting marriage under Article 6.1 of the Basic Law does not justify such a differentiation.
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