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73. Several experienced administrators have left the CPT’s secretariat over the last
twelve months following their appointment to posts or positions in other parts of the
Organisation. Petya Nestorova, the former Head of Division 2, left in October 2010
to head the secretariat of the Council of Europe Convention on action against
trafficking in human beings, and Caterina Bolognese and Marco Leidekker left in
March 2011 to head the Council of Europe’s Offices in Tbilisi and Tirana respectively.
Further, another experienced administrator, Muriel Iseli, has recently taken unpaid
leave. The process of finding replacements is already well advanced, and should be
completed early next year. However, as already indicated (see paragraph 2), this
significant turnover of staff has inevitably acted as a brake on the Committee’s
visiting activities during the period covered by this General Report.
In the light of these staff developments, there has been a modest
reorganisation of the operational divisions; an updated organigram of the CPT’s
secretariat is set out in Appendix 5.
74. It remains the case that one of the administrators in the CPT’s secretariat
occupies a “position” (i.e. an employment established for a fixed term). As has been
stressed in previous General Reports, to assign a position to the CPT’s secretariat is
not consistent with the permanent and specialised nature of the Committee’s
activities. More specifically, the CPT wishes to avoid the risk of making a
considerable investment in training a staff member for work with the Committee
only to see the person concerned then leave, simply because a post becomes available
in another department. This has already happened twice in recent years. The CPT
therefore reiterates its request that the position in its secretariat be either
transformed into a post or exchanged with a post from elsewhere in the
Organisation.
75. The CPT has been requesting for a decade now that each of the three
operational divisions in its secretariat be provided with a B4 official; to date, only one
of the divisions has the benefit of such an official. The Committee wishes to stress
once again that these officials would be able to perform a range of support tasks,
thereby ensuring that optimal use is made of the existing complement of
administrators (which the CPT is not seeking to have increased). The CPT very
much hopes that it will be possible to meet this long-standing request, in the context
of the current re-organisation of the Council of Europe’s secretariat.
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