9 B. CPT membership 20. There were a number of changes in the CPT's membership during 1995. Five members left the Committee, either prematurely or as a result of the expiry of their terms of office: Mr Nicolo Amato (Italy), Mr Tonio Borg (Malta), Mr Love Kellberg (Sweden), Mr Petros Michaelides (Cyprus) and Mrs Nora Staels-Dompas (Belgium). The Committee would like to thank them for their respective contributions to its work. Nine new members were elected by the Committee of Ministers in the course of 1995: Mr Mario Benedettini (in respect of San Marino), Mrs Christina Doctare (Sweden), Mr Vitaliano Esposito (Italy), Mr Lambert Kelchtermans (Belgium), Mr Adam Łaptaś (Poland), Mr John Olden (Ireland), Mrs Jagoda Poloncová (Slovakia), Mr Florin Stănescu (Romania) and Mr Demetrios Stylianides (Cyprus). Further, since the beginning of 1996, two additional members have been elected to the Committee: Mr Miklós Magyar (Hungary) and Mrs Maria Sciberras (Malta). The following three members were re-elected for a second term of office in the course of 1995 or 1996 (to date): Mr Jón Bjarman (Iceland), Mr Constantin Economides (Greece) and Mrs Pirkko Lahti (Finland). As a result, the CPT presently has 27 members, the seats in respect of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia being vacant7. 21. During its meeting in September 1995, the CPT elected its new Bureau for a period of two years. The Committee renewed the mandate of Mr Claude Nicolay (a public prosecutor from Luxembourg) as its President, elected Mrs Ingrid Lycke Ellingsen (a Norwegian psychiatrist) as 1st Vice-President and re-elected Mrs Nora Stael-Dompas (an Honorary Senator from Belgium and a former Vice-President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly) as 2nd Vice-President. Following Mrs Stael-Dompas's departure from the Committee as a result of the expiry of her term of office at the end of 1995, the CPT subsequently elected Mr Leopoldo Torres Boursault (a lawyer from Spain and a former State Public Prosecutor) as its 2nd VicePresident. 22. The CPT has repeatedly drawn attention to the importance of increasing the number of members who are medical doctors with relevant experience or who possess specialist practical knowledge of penitentiary systems. The Committee is pleased to record that the medical component of its membership has been reinforced considerably over the last eighteen months; however, there is still a need for more prison specialists. It should also be noted that the number of women among the CPT's membership (seven out of twenty seven) remains rather low. Looking ahead to 1997, in the course of which the terms of office of ten CPT members shall expire, the Committee trusts that care will be taken to ensure that all the relevant professions are adequately represented within its membership8. 7 See Appendix 2 A for the full list of members. 8 The abridged curricula vitae of existing CPT members may be obtained from the Committee's Secretariat (document CPT/Inf (96) 4).