(1) If the debtor is a natural person, then persons with a close relationship to the debtor are the following:
1. the debtor’s spouse, even if the marriage was contracted only after the transaction or was dissolved during the last year prior to the transaction;
1a the debtor’s life partner, even if the life partnership was contracted only after the transaction or was dissolved during the last year prior to the transaction;
2. the ascendants or descendants of the debtor or of the spouse designated in no. 1, or the life partner designated in no. 1a, the debtor’s full and half-blood siblings, or the spouse designated in no. 1, or the life partner designated in no. 1a, and the spouses of such persons;
3. persons living in the debtor’s household or having lived in the debtor’s household during the last year prior to the transaction, as well as persons who can provide information on the debtor’s financial circumstances on the grounds of a relationship based on a contract of employment or service with the debtor.
4. a legal entity or a company without legal personality if the debtor or one of the persons referred to in nos. 1 to 3 is a member of the body representing or supervising the debtor, a general partner or persons holding more than one quarter of the debtor’s capital, or is able, on the basis of a comparable relationship under company law or a contract of employment or service, to provide information regarding the debtor’s financial circumstances.
(2) If the debtor is a legal entity or a company without legal personality, then the persons with a close relationship to the debtor are the following:
1. the members of the body representing or supervising the debtor, as well as general partners and persons holding more than one quarter of the debtor’s capital;
2. a person or a company having, on the basis of a comparable association with the debtor under company law or under a service contract, the opportunity to become aware of the debtor’s financial circumstances;
3. a person having a personal relationship detailed in subsection (1) with a person referred to in no. 1 or no. 2; this does not apply if the persons referred to in no. 1 or no. 2 are legally bound to secrecy regarding the debtor’s affairs.