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10.12.2 Canteen Stock and Prices. The purpose of the canteens shall be to enableinternees to make purchases, at prices not higher than local market prices, of foodstuffs andarticles of everyday use, including soap and tobacco, such as would increase their personal wellbeingand comfort. 208Internees are not entitled to more favorable treatment than the population at large withrespect to canteen facilities, and are equally subject to regulations, such as those pertaining torationing, which are applied to the population generally. 20910.12.3 Canteen Management and Profits. Canteen profits shall be credited to a welfarefund to be set up for each place of internment, and administered for the benefit of the interneesattached to such place of internment. 210 The Internee Committee shall have the right to checkthe management of the canteen and of the fund. 211When a place of internment is closed down, the balance of the welfare fund shall betransferred to the welfare fund of a place of internment for internees of the same nationality, or,if such a place does not exist, to a central welfare fund that shall be administered for the benefitof all internees remaining in the custody of the Detaining Power. 212 In case of a general release,the profits shall be kept by the Detaining Power, subject to any agreement to the contrarybetween the Powers concerned. 213208 GC art. 87 (“Their purpose shall be to enable internees to make purchases, at prices not higher than local marketprices, of foodstuffs and articles of everyday use, including soap and tobacco, such as would increase their personalwell-being and comfort.”).209 See II-A FINAL RECORD OF THE DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE OF GENEVA OF 1949 837 (“The general view was,however, that Article 76 was simply a ‘morale-sustaining’ Article, and that the internee was simply to be given thechance of purchasing, for example, a particular kind of soap, of his own choice, in substitution for a correspondingamount of the kind which the Detaining Power would normally provide under Article 75. It would be unreasonablein any case to contend that the provision of canteens was intended to put the internee in a superior position to thepopulation at large.”).210 GC art. 87 (“Profits made by canteens shall be credited to a welfare fund to be set up for each place ofinternment, and administered for the benefit of the internees attached to such place of internment.”).211 GC art. 87 (“The Internee Committee provided for in Article 102 shall have the right to check the management ofthe canteen and of the said fund.”).212 GC art. 87 (“When a place of internment is closed down, the balance of the welfare fund shall be transferred tothe welfare fund of a place of internment for internees of the same nationality, or, if such a place does not exist, to acentral welfare fund which shall be administered for the benefit of all internees remaining in the custody of theDetaining Power.”).213 GC art. 87 (“In case of a general release, the said profits shall be kept by the Detaining Power, subject to anyagreement to the contrary between the Powers concerned.”).676