EN_CPT_AR.book Page 45 Monday, October 25, 2010 5:14 PM Organisational matters Bureau of the CPT 93. During the CPT’s March 2010 meeting, elections were held for the Bureau of the Committee. Mauro Palma, an Italian expert on prison issues, was re-elected as the CPT’s President. Pétur Hauksson, an Icelandic psychiatrist and the outgoing 2nd Vice-President, was elected as the Committee’s 1st Vice-President, and Haritini Dipla, a Greek professor of international law, was elected as the Committee’s new 2nd Vice-President. 94. The term of office of Bureau members is in principle two years. However, as an exceptional measure, the CPT decided to limit the term of office of the Bureau members elected in March 2010 to one year. This change to the election cycle was considered desirable, having regard to the impact of the system of biennial renewal of one half of the Committee’s membership introduced by Protocol No. 2 to the Convention. The biennial renewal occurs on 19 December of odd-numbered years, and the elections of Bureau members have been organised at the first plenary meeting in even-numbered years. Consequently, to date, Bureau elections have taken place at the very moment when a not insignificant number of new CPT members participated in their first Committee meeting. As a result of the change to the election cycle, Bureau elections will in future be held during the first plenary meeting in odd-numbered years (i.e. March 2011; March 2013, etc.). In this way, all CPT members will have knowledge of their colleagues’ profiles and be familiar with the Committee’s functioning when they vote on who should be elected to the Bureau. 45