Organisational matters CPT membership 88. On 31 December 2015, the CPT comprised 42 members. The seats in respect of Azerbaijan, Malta, Portugal, Romania and the Russian Federation were vacant. Twenty-four of the CPT’s members were men and 18 were women. Consequently, applying the “less-than-40%” criterion used by the Parliamentary Assembly in Resolution 1540 (2007)14, neither sex is currently under-represented in the Committee. 89. In the course of 2015, the composition of the CPT underwent important changes, mainly as a direct result of the biennial renewal of its membership. A total of eight new members were elected, namely Dagmar Breznoščáková (Slovak Republic), Matthias Halldórsson (Iceland), Vassilis Karydis (Greece), Marie 14. See Resolution 1540 (2007), sub-paragraph 7.2 of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on improving selection procedures for CPT members: “[…] lists of candidates shall include at least one man and one woman, except when all candidates on the list are of the sex under-represented on the CPT (less than 40%) […]”. Lukasová (Czech Republic), Arta Mandro (Albania), Philippe Mary (Belgium), Katja Šugman Stubbs (Slovenia) and Elisabetta Zamparutti (Italy). Further, nine members were re-elected: Joan Cabeza Gimenez (Andorra), Marzena Ksel (Poland), Maria Rita Morganti (San Marino), Costakis Paraskeva (Cyprus), Jari Pirjola (Finland), Ilvija Pūce (Latvia), Vytautas Raškauskas (Lithuania), Ivona Todorovska (“the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”) and Olivera Vulić (Montenegro). In parallel, 11 members left the CPT on the expiry of their terms of office on 19 December 2015: Celso José Das Neves Manata (Portugal), Maïté De Rue (Belgium), Dan Dermengiu (Romania), Haritini Dipla (Greece), Andreana Esposito (Italy), Lәtif Hüseynov (Azerbaijan), Natalia Khutorskaya (Russian Federation), Alfred Koçobashi (Albania), Anna Lamperová (Slovak Republic), Andrés Magnússon (Iceland) and Jan Pfeiffer (Czech Republic). In addition, Ivan Mifsud (Malta) resigned on 12 February 2015. The CPT wishes to warmly thank all the aforementioned members for their contribution to the Committee’s work. ► Page 47