EN_CPT_AR.book Page 43 Monday, October 25, 2010 5:14 PM Organisational matters Organisational matters CPT membership 85. At the time of publication of this General Report, the CPT has 44 members. The seats in respect of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and Spain are vacant. Some eight years after Bosnia and Herzegovina became a Party to the ECPT, there has still never been a member of the CPT in respect of that country. As for the seats in respect of Moldova and Spain, they have been vacant since 19 December 2009. The CPT hopes that all three of these seats will be filled in the near future. 86. The last twelve months have seen the departure from the CPT of several of its most experienced members; each of them spent more than a decade with the Committee and had a significant impact on its work. The CPT is deeply grateful to them for the part they played in the development of the Committee’s activities. 87. Eleven new CPT members were elected during the period covered by this General Report: Régis Bergonzi (in respect of Monaco), Yakin Ertürk (Turkey), Mykola Gnatovskyy (Ukraine), Georg Høyer (Norway), Julia Kozma (Austria), James McManus (United Kingdom), Anna Molnár (Hungary), Nadia Polnareva (Bulgaria), Vincent Theis (Luxembourg), Marika Väli (Estonia) and Branka Zobec Hrastar (Slovenia). Further, the following members were re-elected: Marija Definis Gojanović (in respect of Croatia), Wolfgang Heinz (Germany), Ivan Janković (Serbia), Isolde Kieber (Liechtenstein), Xavier Ronsin (France) and Antonius van Kalmthout (the Netherlands). 88. The following members of the CPT left the Committee, on the expiry of their terms of office: Ömer Atalar (in respect of Turkey), Aleš Butala (Slovenia), Silvia Casale (United Kingdom), Gergely Fliegauf (Hungary), Anna Gavrilova-Ancheva (Bulgaria), Emilio Gines Santidrián (Spain), Renate Kicker (Austria), Andres Lehtmets (Estonia), Birgit Lie (Norway), Roland Marquet (Monaco), Tatiana Răducanu (Moldova) and Zoreslava Shkiryak-Nyzhnyk (Ukraine). The CPT wishes to sincerely thank all the above persons for their contributions to the Committee’s work. 43