As an exception to article R. 431-20, when the application for a residence permit is lodged with the prefecture of the Bouches-du-Rhône department, the prefect of this department is competent to issue a residence permit to foreign nationals, and members of their families, working within the framework of the Agreement on the Establishment of the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization for the Joint Implementation of the ITER Project, signed in Paris on 21 November 2006, or for the Saint-Paul-lez-Durance research centre of the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives and employed by :
1° A contractor or subcontractor of a contractor of the international organisation mentioned in the first paragraph;
2° The domestic agencies provided for in Article 8 of the agreement mentioned in the first paragraph or a contractor or subcontractor of a contractor of one of these agencies;
3° The commissariat mentioned in the first paragraph or one of its contractors or subcontractors of a contractor.