The French were represented at Turin by a delegation of their own (the Délégation française à la Commission italienne d'Armistice or DFCIA) and four subdelegations corresponding to the subcommissions.
On 4 February 1941, it began establishing Civil Assistance and Repatriation Delegations (Delegazioni Civili Rimpatrio e Assistenza) or DRAs in French cities.
It appointed civil commissioners in the occupied communities of Bessans, Bramans, Fontan, Isola, Lanslebourg, Menton, Montgenèvre, Ristolas and Séez; they remained active down to the Italian armistice with the Allies (8 September 1943).
It was distinct from the Subcommission for Economic and Financial Affairs (Sottocommissione Affari Economici e Finanziari, SCAEF) established under Tomasso Lazzari in Turin.
[1] After occupation of unoccupied France in November 1942, the CIAF retained control only of the original occupied territory (demarcated by the "green line", linea verde).
[3] By early December 1942, the CIAF was moribund and the leader of the French delegation, Admiral Émile-André Duplat, asked President Arturo Vacca-Maggiolini whether it in fact still existed.
[1] General Gaëtan Germain in Djibouti convinced the armistice commission that it was inadvisable and impractical to demilitarise the colony, in which approximately 8,000 French soldiers (with tanks and airplanes) thus remained on guard.
[6] In the French colony of Chad, concern that an Italian armistice commission would arrive was one factor in Governor Félix Éboué's decision to rally to Free France on 26 August 1940.
[12] The first of the French anti-Jewish laws, the Loi portant statut des Juifs, was published in Tunisia by a decree of Bey Ahmad II, countersigned by Resident-General Jean-Pierre Esteva, on 30 November 1940.