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 Book V.
It exercises the legal and administrative protection of refugees as well as that of beneficiaries of subsidiary protection or stateless status.
The Office carries out the missions mentioned above with complete impartiality and does not receive any instructions in their performance.