G.T.B. v. SPAIN JUDGMENT anxiety caused by the lack of an ID card and the ensuing inability to undergo training or to be employed, which aggravated his mental condition. 29. In July 2011 the applicant was granted a disability pension of a noncontributory nature owing to his severe psychiatric and psychological disorders, including paranoid schizophrenia and chronic post-traumatic disorder. 30. According to a forensic medical report requested during the judicial proceedings from 4 November 2016, the applicant has post-traumatic stress and continued to be under psychiatric follow-up, but this did not impair him from appearing before a court and making a judicial statement. V. THE APPLICANT’S MOTHER’S REQUESTS FOR HIM TO OBTAIN A BIRTH CERTIFICATE A. From 1997 to 1998 31. On 3 September 1997, when the applicant was 12 years old, his mother appeared at the La Laguna Civil Registry and requested late registration of the birth of her two sons, including the applicant. Ms X included their address in the application. 32. In the course of the proceedings, the applicant’s mother was asked to appear with two witnesses in order to be able to register her sons, first by a summons sent on 9 September 1997 and, following the absence of a response, by a second summons sent in January 1998. The two witnesses were heard on 25 and 27 August 1998 and confirmed the mother-son relationship between the applicant and his brother and Ms X. 33. On 10 September 1998 the judge at the La Laguna Civil Registry considered that no further documents or evidence were needed and requested the public prosecutor’s office, which deals with matters concerning minors, to report whether the late registration was justified. On the same date the public prosecutor’s office issued a report, according to which it had been sufficiently proved that the applicant and his brother were sons of Ms X as she had claimed, and their birth could therefore be registered. The judge at the La Laguna Civil Registry immediately decided, on the very same day, that the birth of the applicant and his brother could be registered. B. From 1998 to 2002 34. On 16 December 1998 the Central Civil Registry, the body competent to register births of Spanish nationals outside Spanish territory, asked Ms X to submit her own birth certificate and birth certificates proving the birth of her children in Mexico before it could proceed with the birth registration. 6