Authorisation , a genuine Certified Copy,was laminated when it was issued 7 years ago for protection.
It has been inspected many times by authorities all over Europe, including Spain , never any problems or questions until last month’s incident at Irun.
The Spanish, IMHO, are simply on a revenue raising exercise, imposing massive fines for seemingly trivial offences.
Apparently the fine for having a copy of an authorisation in Germany is less than € 500