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• to establish an armistice or suspension of fire, or local arrangement to permit the removal,exchange, and transport of the wounded, sick, and shipwrecked; 10• to establish and recognize hospital zones and localities; 11• to establish the corresponding ranks for the medical personnel, including the staff of anyauthorized voluntary aid societies, in order to help determine the senior retained medicalofficer in POW camps; 12• to put neutral observers on board ships to verify the strict observation of provisions of theGWS-Sea or verify the equipment carried on board is exclusively for the treatment of thewounded and sick, or for the prevention of disease; 13• to determine the percentage of personnel to be retained, in proportion to the number ofPOWs, and the distribution of the retained personnel in POW camps; 14• to establish flights or additional markings for medical aircraft; 15• to approve chartered medical transport ships; 16• between the belligerent parties and a neutral Power on the wounded, sick, andshipwrecked who are disembarked onto the neutral Power’s territory; 17• to use the most modern methods available to facilitate the identification of hospitalships; 18 and• on the procedure, or to select an umpire who will decide the procedure, to be followed foran inquiry concerning any alleged violation of the GWS or GWS-Sea. 19In addition to these agreements expressly provided for in the GWS and GWS-Sea, Partiesto the GWS or GWS-Sea may conclude other special agreements for all matters concerningwhich they may deem it suitable to make separate provision. 2010 Refer to § 7.4.3.1 (Armistices and Local Arrangements to Permit the Removal, Exchange, or Transport of theWounded).11 Refer to § 5.14.3 (Establishing Areas Where Civilians or the Wounded and Sick Are Protected).12 Refer to § 7.9.5.7 (Senior Medical Officer in the Camp).13 Refer to § 7.13.1 (Agreement to Place Neutral Observers on Chartered Medical Transports); § 7.12.2.6 (Controland Search of Hospital Ships and Coastal Rescue Craft).14 Refer to § 7.9.4.3 (Special Agreements on the Percentage of Personnel to Be Retained).15 Refer to § 7.14 (Military Medical Aircraft).16 Refer to § 7.13 (Chartered Medical Transport Ships).17 Refer to § 7.14.6.2 (Detention of the Wounded, Sick, or Shipwrecked).18 Refer to § 7.12.3.5 (Agreements to Facilitate the Identification of Hospital Ships).19 Refer to § 18.14.1 (Inquiry Procedure in the 1949 Geneva Conventions).412

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