- 11 25. That action is required is clear from the list of CPT members in Appendix 2A. Of the existing 22 members, 10 have the same term of office expiry date. However, among the other 12 there are no less than 9 different expiry dates, spanning a period of approximately three years. Under the existing provisions of the Convention, there is no means of regrouping the terms of office of the latter members. Further, the terms of office of members elected in the future in respect of new Parties to the Convention will expire on different dates. Even the existing group of 10 members with the same term of office expiry date shall no doubt in time be gradually broken up, as individual members in that group fail, for one reason or another, to complete a term of office. Unless appropriate measures are taken, the profusion of different term of office expiry dates will in due course become the source of considerable inconvenience from an organisational standpoint. The CPT very much hopes, therefore, that a Protocol to the Convention tackling this issue will be adopted at the earliest possible opportunity, and that it will include provisions designed to ensure its rapid entry into force. c. Budgetary questions 26. The CPT's budgetary requests for 1993 in respect of visits and meetings were approved by the Committee of Ministers. However, the resources of the CPT's Secretariat in 1993 shall be somewhat weaker than had been envisaged when the 1993 visit programme was drawn up in the middle of 1992. Faced with this situation, and taking into account also a certain backlog of work as regards drawing up visit reports and the pursuit of the ongoing dialogue with States visited, the CPT has had to cut the visit programme originally foreseen for 1993. Nevertheless, the Committee still hopes to have completed the first round of periodic visits to States which are currently Parties to the Convention by the end of 19937. 27. The Secretariat is due to be reinforced by the arrival of an additional administrative officer some time in 1993, and it is hoped that a further administrative officer shall be available at the outset of 1994. This should enable the CPT to increase its visiting activities and at the same time to remain on schedule with the drawing up of visit reports and with follow-up procedures. 7 At the beginning of 1993, the following Parties to the Convention had not yet received a periodic visit: Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Norway.