Appendices
3. The CPT’s field of operations
States bound by the Convention
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Republic of Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
San Marino
Serbia
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
“The former
Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia”
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Note : This is an unofficial representation of States bound by the Convention. For technical
reasons it has not been possible to show the entire territory of certain of the States concerned.
47 States, prison population: 1 861 246 prisoners
(Main source: Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics (SPACE I – 2010); data as at
1 September 2010)
It should be noted that, as well as prisons, the CPT’s mandate covers all other categories of
places where persons are deprived of their liberty: police establishments, detention centres
for juveniles, military detention facilities, holding centres for aliens, psychiatric hospitals,
homes for the elderly, etc.
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