Organisational matters CPT membership 92. On 31 December 2017, the CPT comprised 45 members. The seats in respect of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain were vacant. Twenty-six of the CPT’s members were men and 19 were women. Consequently, applying the “less-than-40%” criterion used by the Parliamentary Assembly in Resolution 1540 (2007),8 neither sex is currently under-represented in the Committee. 93. In the course of 2017, the composition of the CPT changed substantially, mainly as a result of the biennial renewal of its membership at the end of the year. A total of nine new members were elected, namely Vincent Delbos (France), Thomas Feltes (Germany), Gergely Fliegauf (Hungary), Vincent Micallef (Malta), Alan Mitchell (United Kingdom), Vitalie Nagacevschi (Republic of Moldova), Slava Novak (Slovenia), Tinatin Uplisashvili (Georgia) and Chila van der Bas (Netherlands). Further, fourteen members were re-elected: Djordje Alempijević (Serbia), Régis Bergonzi (Monaco), Mykola Gnatovskyy (Ukraine), Per Granström (Sweden), Nico Hirsch (Luxembourg), Georg Høyer (Norway), Julia Kozma (Austria), Esther Marogg (Liechtenstein), Alexander Minchev (Bulgaria), Ömer Müslümanoğlu (Turkey), Therese Maria Rytter (Denmark), Davor Strinović (Croatia), Marika Väli (Estonia) and Hans Wolff (Switzerland). Seven members left the CPT upon expiry of their term of office on 19 December 2017: Wolfgang Heinz (Germany), James McManus (United Kingdom), Anna Molnár (Hungary), Xavier Ronsin (France), George Tugushi (Georgia), Antonius Maria Van Kalmthout (Netherlands) and Victor Zaharia (Republic of Moldova). In addition, Anthony Abela Medici (Malta) resigned on 25 January 2017. The CPT wishes to warmly thank all the aforementioned members for their contribution to the Committee’s work. A list of CPT members as at 31 December 2017 is set out in Appendix 4. 8. 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%) […]”. ► Page 31