| Applicant name | X. |
| Applicant type | Natural person |
| Country | Germany |
| Decision no. | 6577/74 |
| Date | 19/12/1974 |
| Judges | –
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| Institution | Commission |
| Type | Decision |
| Outcome Art. 8 | Inadmissible |
| Reason | No positive obligation; nor interference |
| Type of privacy | Family privacy |
| Keywords | Father’s realtionship with child broken |
| Facts of the case | Father has been living apart from his daughter for a dozen of years; the contact he has with his daughter is increasingly complicated and eventually waters down. |
| Analysis | The Commission stresses that there was no active interference with the man’s right to family life, but that the authorities have respected has legitimate desires, that the fact that his contact with his daughter is problematic is at least partly his own fault and finally, referring to its earlier decision, that the Convention does, in principle, not entail a positive obligation for governments to guarantee the rights contained in it. |
| Documents | Decision |