Subsection 1: Duties and performance of duties

The Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) is a public body with legal personality and financial and administrative autonomy reporting to the Minister responsible for asylum. It recognises the status of refugee or stateless person, or grants the benefit of subsidiary protection to persons fulfilling the conditions mentioned in Title I or Chapter II of Title VIII of…

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons ensures, in liaison with the competent administrative authorities, compliance with the fundamental guarantees offered by national law, the implementation of international conventions, agreements or arrangements concerning the protection of refugees on the territory of the Republic, and in particular the protection provided by the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 and the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967…

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons is authorised to issue to refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection or stateless status, after investigation if necessary, the documents necessary to enable them either to perform the various acts of civil life, or to apply the provisions of domestic legislation or international agreements concerning their protection, in particular documents in lieu of civil status records.The Director General of…

The anonymity of the staff of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons responsible for examining asylum applications and conducting personal interviews with applicants is guaranteed.

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons may carry out decentralised missions in the territories.

Each year, the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons draws up a report outlining its activities, providing quantitative and qualitative data presented by gender on asylum applications and statelessness and presenting the training provided to staff, particularly on gender-based persecution and taking into account the vulnerability of asylum seekers. This report will be sent to Parliament and made public. .