0031-0330 irl.qxd 2.3.2009 14:20 Page 154 ANNEX III REGULATIONS CONCERNING COLLECTIVE RELIEF (see Article 73) ARTICLE 1. — Prisoners’ representatives shall be allowed to distribute collective relief shipments for which they are responsible, to all prisoners of war administered by their camp, including those who are in hospitals, or in prisons or other penal establishments. ART. 2. — The distribution of collective relief shipments shall be effected in accordance with the instructions of the donors and with a plan drawn up by the prisoners’ representatives. The issue of medical stores shall, however, be made for preference in agreement with the senior medical officers, and the latter may, in hospitals and infirmaries, waive the said instructions, if the needs of their patients so demand. Within the limits thus defined, the distribution shall always be carried out equitably. ART. 3. — The said prisoners’ representatives or their assistants shall be allowed to go to the points of arrival of relief supplies near their camps, so as to enable the prisoners’ representatives or their assistants to verify the quality as well as the quantity of the goods received, and to make out detailed reports thereon for the donors. ART. 4. — Prisoners’ representatives shall be given the facilities necessary for verifying whether the distribution of collective relief in all sub-divisions and annexes of their camps has been carried out in accordance with their instructions. ART. 5. — Prisoners’ representatives shall be allowed to fill up, and cause to be filled up by the prisoners’ representatives of labour detachments or by the senior medical officers of infirmaries and hospitals, forms or questionnaires intended for the donors, relating to collective relief supplies (distribution, requirements, quantities, etc.). Such forms and questionnaires, duly completed, shall be forwarded to the donors without delay. ART. 6. — In order to secure the regular issue of collective relief to the prisoners of war in their camp, and to meet any needs that may arise from the arrival of new contingents of prisoners, prisoners’ representatives shall be allowed to build up and maintain adequate reserve stocks of collective relief. For this purpose, they shall have suitable warehouses at their disposal; each warehouse shall be provided with two locks, the prisoners’ representative holding the keys of one lock and the camp commander the keys of the other.