EN_CPT_AR.book Page 46 Monday, October 25, 2010 5:14 PM CPT General Report 2009-2010 CPT secretariat 95. In its 19th General Report, the CPT highlighted staff-related difficulties that had been acting as a brake on the development of the Committee’s visit programme. Regrettably, there has been no improvement in the situation during the last twelve months. 96. Throughout the period covered by this General Report, one of the most experienced administrators in the CPT’s Secretariat, Borys Wódz, has continued to be the Special Representative of the Secretary General to Georgia. It is expected that he will return to the Committee at the beginning of 2011. From February to August 2010, he was replaced by a staff member working on a temporary contract, Maria Korneeva. Although not qualified to assist CPT visiting delegations in the field, Ms Korneeva did valuable research work for the Committee. However, as of midAugust she was obliged to leave the Secretariat in view of the six-month rule that currently applies to temporary staff members. It is not feasible to organise another suitable replacement for the few remaining months of the year. 97. Further, in July 2010, the administrator occupying the one “position” in the Committee’s Secretariat, Francesca Montagna, left after some 18 months with the CPT, following her appointment to a post in another part of the Organisation. As was stressed in the 19th General Report, to assign a position to the CPT’s Secretariat involves 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 because a post becomes available in another department. Attempts are now being made to fill once again the position. However, given the permanent nature of the CPT’s activities, the Committee remains of the view that it would be far preferable for the position to be transformed into a post or exchanged with a post from elsewhere in the Council of Europe’s Secretariat. 98. There has also been no progress towards providing the additional B4 officials required by Divisions 2 and 3 within the CPT’s Secretariat. The Committee wishes to reiterate that these two officials would be able to perform a range of support tasks, thereby ensuring that optimal use is made of the existing complement of administrators. 99. The Head of Division 2, Petya Nestorova, is about to leave the CPT’s Secretariat, to head the Secretariat of the Council of Europe Convention on action against trafficking in human beings. The CPT wishes to place on record its appreciation of Ms Nestorova’s outstanding contribution to the Committee’s activities during her more than 15 years of service in its Secretariat. 46