40The Court has also held, with regard to a person who is a national of a Member State which refuses to recognise the name acquired by that person as an effect of his adoption in another Member State, in which that person resides, that the real risk of being obliged because of the discrepancy in names to dispel doubts as to one’s identity is such as to hinder the exercise of the right which flows from Article 21 TFEU (see, to that effect, judgment of 22 December 2010 in Sayn-Wittgenstein, C‑208/09, EU:C:2010:806, paragraph 70).
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