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• Administrative court reviews one more case on Latvianisation of personal name

 Latvijas Avize reports about a court case in which parents of a child are complaining about Latvianisation of the child’s name. The child was born in Germany and registered there as Hugo Mark, yet in Latvia, the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs registered the child as Latvian citizen adding Latvian ending –s to the name – Marks. Parents appealed such decision in the Administrative Court. Newspaper notes that in 2008, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in a similar case that if the EU citizen was born in one of the EU states and his/her name was registered in the registry of acts of civil status in the birth country, including birth certificate, according to the country’s legal rules, than the name of the person should be acknowledged in all others EU member countries, including the country of citizenship.