G.T.B. v. SPAIN JUDGMENT In the case of G.T.B. v. Spain, The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Georges Ravarani, President, Carlo Ranzoni, Mārtiņš Mits, María Elósegui, Mattias Guyomar, Kateřina Šimáčková, Mykola Gnatovskyy, judges, and Victor Soloveytchik, Section Registrar, Having regard to: the application (no. 3041/19) against the Kingdom of Spain lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Spanish national, Mr G.T.B. (“the applicant”), on 21 December 2018; the decision to give notice to the Spanish Government (“the Government”) of the complaints concerning Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention and Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention and to declare the remainder of the application inadmissible; the parties’ observations; the decision to grant the applicant anonymity of its own motion under Rule 47 § 4 of the Rules of Court; Having deliberated in private on 5 September and 17 October 2023, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the latter date: INTRODUCTION 1. The case concerns the delay by the public authorities in processing the applicant’s mother’s request to register his birth, which was made several years after the applicant was born. Not having a birth certificate also prevented the applicant from having a national ID card, which he only obtained when he was twenty-one years old. The lack of identification documents had, in the applicant’s view, an impact on his psychological well-being, which violated his right under Article 3, on his private and family life, which violated his right under Article 8 § 1 of the Convention, and on his right to education under Article 2 of Protocol No. 1, as he complained that he had not been able to enrol in school and obtain diplomas because of this. THE FACTS 2. The applicant was born in 1985 and lives in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He was represented by Mr J.C. Vázquez Fernández, a lawyer practising in Madrid. 1