Organisational matters Organisational matters CPT membership 101. At the time of publication of this General Report, the CPT has 45 members. The seats in respect of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of Luxembourg are vacant. Some seven years after Bosnia and Herzegovina became a Party to the ECPT, there has still never been a member of the Committee elected in respect of that country. The CPT very much hopes that this anomaly will be remedied in the near future; in the first place, the delegation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Parliamentary Assembly should put forward a list of three suitably qualified candidates. 102. Thanks to the system of renewal every two years of one half of the CPT’s members, introduced by Protocol No. 2 to the ECPT, the Committee’s membership has remained very stable over the last twelve months. However, Pierre Schmit, the member elected in respect of Luxembourg, was obliged for health reasons to resign in February 2009. The CPT wishes to place on record its appreciation of the important contribution he made to the Committee’s work during the eleven years that he was one of its members. Two new members were elected during the period covered by this General Report, namely Anna Lamperová (in respect of Slovakia) and Stefan Weinberg-Krakowski (Sweden). Further, two sitting members were reelected – George Tugushi (Georgia) and Jørgen Worsaee Rasmussen (Denmark). 103. The next biennial renewal of the CPT’s membership is due to take place at the end of this year, the terms of office of one half of the members of the Committee expiring on 19 December 2009. The CPT trusts that all the national delegations concerned in the Parliamentary Assembly will put forward lists of candidates in good time, so as to avoid vacant seats in the Committee. As at 15 October 2009, lists of candidates in respect of three countries (Croatia, Moldova and Spain) are still missing. 47