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The power of attorney for one specific act in Romania: collecting a document, representing someone at an office, signing a contract, receiving a payment. It describes the act exactly, the limits of the authority, whether the agent may deal with themselves or appoint a substitute, and until when it is valid. For acts that need notarial form — selling a home, for example — the power of attorney must be notarial too.

For two businesses or professionals in Spain who will exchange confidential information before working together, investing, selling or developing a project: a Spanish reciprocal agreement with the purpose, what is and is not confidential, the duties, how long they last after the relationship ends, return of materials, trade secrets under Spain's Law 1/2019 and, if agreed, a penalty in words and figures. Signed in two copies. In Spanish.

A general power of attorney for a bank or the Land Registry is granted before a notary in Spain (article 1280.5 of the Spanish Civil Code), and DocMuse does not sell one. This private mandate is for someone who asks a relative or trusted person to run everyday errands with individuals, companies and offices that accept it: collecting documents, raising utility complaints, dealing with the building administrator. It lists the errands, sets how long it lasts and excludes selling or charging property. Both sign it with a copy of their ID. In Spanish.

For two businesses or professionals in Italy exchanging confidential information before working together, selling or investing: an Italian mutual NDA setting out the purpose of the exchange, what is and is not confidential, permitted use, the staff and advisers allowed to see it, return of the information, how long it lasts after the talks and a penalty with its specific approval (arts. 1341–1342 of the Italian Civil Code). It refers to the protection of trade secrets (arts. 98–99 of the Italian Industrial Property Code). Signed in two copies or digitally.

For anyone who wants a trusted person to handle their everyday affairs: paying bills and taxes, collecting money, picking up documents, dealing with the building’s condominium and with offices. Under Italian law a private power covers only ordinary administration and the acts expressly listed; selling or buying property, a gift or any act to be registered needs a notarial power. Banks and Poste Italiane may ask for their own forms. Signed by the principal and accepted by the agent.

For handing the day-to-day running of your affairs to someone close during an absence, a hospital stay or a stay abroad: paying bills, collecting income, dealing with public offices. Written in general terms, it covers acts of administration only (article 1988 of the French Civil Code); selling or giving away property needs an express power. To arrange your own protection in advance should your faculties decline, the mandat de protection future (Cerfa 13592 or a notarial deed) is the route the law provides. Signed by principal and agent, in two copies.

A general power of attorney for Austria that names what § 1008 of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB) demands: a general power covers selling and buying, loans, collecting money, lawsuits and settlements only if these kinds of business are expressly named. It lists them, with banking, public authorities and the tax office, lets you add exceptions and further kinds, and says which acts need a separate special power. For the land register: a certified signature and no more than three years old. It is not a lasting power (Vorsorgevollmacht), which is made before a notary, lawyer or adult-protection association. In German.

gov.gr issues authorisations free; this document gives you the wording, to paste there, or to sign as a PDF and have the signature certified free on docs.gov.gr or at a citizen service centre (ΚΕΠ). It is DocMuse's own text, not the Greek state's form. It covers one precisely described act in Greece — collecting a document, filing an application, signing a contract, receiving a payment — and sets the limits of the authority, whether the agent may appoint a substitute or deal with themselves, and until when it is valid. Under the Greek Civil Code an authority takes the form of the act (art. 217): selling real estate, or any act made by notarial deed, needs a notarial power of attorney.

For an employee of an Italian ministry, region, municipality, health authority or other public body who is resigning. Public administrations are excluded from Italy's online resignation procedure: the employee writes to the administration, giving the notice set by the sector's collective agreement. School staff instead use the free application on the Istanze online portal. Sent by PEC, registered post or through the body's registry office. In the province of Bolzano the body must also accept German, in Valle d'Aosta French. In Italian.

For a domestic helper, carer or nanny leaving a job with a family in Italy. Domestic work is excluded from Italy's online resignation procedure: here resignation is given in writing, and this letter gives it, with the notice set by the collective agreement for domestic work and the last working day, and asks for unused holiday, the accrued thirteenth-month pay, severance pay (TFR), the last payslip and the end-of-job report to INPS. Hand it over and have the copy signed, or send it by registered post with proof of receipt. In Italian.

For a member of a French mutual, insurer or provident institution who has not received the expected reimbursement from their complémentaire santé. Check your online member area first, often the quickest. In French, the letter identifies the contract, the care and the amount expected, records the steps already taken and names the mediator in the contract, free, to be approached within a year of the written complaint. Sold blank, to complete by hand, as it holds health data. Sent by registered post to keep proof.

For an insured person whose care was not reimbursed, or wrongly, by the French local health insurance fund (CPAM) in mainland France, or by the general social security fund (CGSS) in the overseas departments other than Mayotte. The free route comes first: the messaging service of the ameli account. In French, the letter is for when a posted complaint is better: it identifies the care, the dispute and the request, and names the fund's mediator and then the amicable appeals committee. The social security number is written by hand. Sold blank, as it holds health data.

In the admissions ranking for a nursery or kindergarten, working parents prove their employment with a certificate from the employer. It is most often sent back not over its content but over a missing formality. So this request spells out what the certificate must carry: the employer's company number, an outgoing reference number, a date, a signature and a stamp. File it early — the rankings have deadlines, the payroll office does not.

A Cypriot lease of a home with no end date, running from month to month: the property, the rent and its adjustment, the deposit, bills, duties and the move-in and move-out records. Either side ends it by written notice, with the period you set, at the end of a calendar month. It records whether the home falls under the Rent Control Law of 1983, because then a tenant who stays after the tenancy ends becomes a statutory tenant and the landlord recovers possession only by court order.

The agreement by which an author in Romania — a designer, a programmer, a photographer, a writer — assigns a company the economic rights in a work, with everything Law no. 8/1996 requires on pain of annulment: the rights assigned and, for each, the uses, the term and the extent of the assignment — territory included — and the pay; it also says whether the assignment is exclusive. Moral rights stay with the author, because the law does not let them be assigned.

The agreement by which the main tenant of a flat in Austria sublets a room in the shared flat: the room and shared use of kitchen and bathroom, rent with a flat-rate charge for costs, the deposit under § 16b of the Austrian Tenancy Act (MRG), house rules and notice. It asks how far the MRG applies, because the subtenant's protection turns on it: under full or partial application the main tenant too can end the sublease only through the court, with the ground of § 30 Abs 2 Z 12 MRG, and under full application the sublet rent is capped (§ 26 MRG). Open-ended or with an end date. In German, to print and sign.

A letter asking a German employer for a full employment reference (qualifiziertes Arbeitszeugnis) on leaving, or an interim reference (Zwischenzeugnis) while still employed — expressly covering performance and conduct, because without that request the employer owes only a basic reference stating the type and length of the work (§ 109 of the German Trade Regulation Act, GewO). It gives the job, the period of employment, the reason and a date by which the reference should be posted. No form is prescribed for the request. In German.

The letter a tenant in Germany uses to object to a landlord's ordinary notice — for own use, for example — and to demand that the tenancy continue, because moving out would be an unjustifiable hardship for the tenant or the household (§ 574 of the German Civil Code, BGB): old age, illness, pregnancy, children at school or no affordable replacement housing. Since 1 January 2025 text form is enough (§ 574b BGB); the objection must reach the landlord no later than two months before the tenancy ends. The letter gives the reasons and does not accept the notice. In German.

A written cancellation, sent to a bank in Cyprus, of a standing order or a direct debit from your account. It names the account, the payee and the mandate or reference number, asks that nothing be debited from the date you set and that the cancellation be confirmed in writing, and is copied to the payee, because a direct debit mandate is cancelled with the payee too. An authorised direct debit can be refunded if asked within 8 weeks, and an unauthorised one within 13 months.

The request by which anyone asks a Greek public service, municipality or public-law body to inspect or receive copies of specific documents. Since 1 January 2025, art. 5 of the Greek Code of Administrative Procedure, as replaced by art. 59 of Law 5143/2024, gives this right to every person with no interest to show, and the service answers within 20 days. The request names documents rather than asking questions, because a manifestly vague request needs no answer.

Notice ending a Polish residential tenancy with one month's notice to the end of a calendar month, on the grounds in art. 11(2) of the tenants' protection act: arrears after a written warning, use against the agreement despite a warning, subletting without consent. The letter states the reason, because without it the notice is void. An owner wanting to move in relies on a different ground with longer periods, and this is not that document.

Exemption is granted by the head teacher and almost always rests on a medical document — an application with no certificate attached is usually sent back. Mark whether you are asking for a full exemption or only from particular activities, because a partial one is granted more readily. The pupil still has to attend the lesson unless the decision says otherwise.

A place in after-school provision is at the parent's request and is applied for in writing, usually before the school year starts, because whether a group is formed at all depends on how many applications come in. The application states from which date, until what time, and who will be collecting the child — the last matters, because a teacher will not release a child to anyone not on the list.

For anyone who wants to set down their values and decisions about the treatments they accept or refuse, in case they cannot express them one day, and to name a representative to the healthcare team. Each Spanish autonomous community regulates this document and has its own registry and often a free model: if there is one, you may use it. It is sold blank and filled in by hand, because it holds health data. It is formalised before a notary, witnesses or the registry, as your community allows, and entered in the regional registry. In Spanish.