-916. In its 2nd General Report, the CPT emphasised the importance of increasing the number of members who possess specialist practical knowledge of penitentiary systems or are medical doctors with relevant experience (cf. CPT/Inf (92) 3, paragraphs 26 and 27). The changes in the CPT's membership during 1993 cannot be said to have remedied this problem. Further, the number of women among the CPT's membership remains rather low. The CPT hopes that these matters will be kept in mind in the course of the procedure to fill the vacant seats on the Committee. 17. 1993 also saw the election of a new Bureau. The CPT elected Mr Claude Nicolay (a public prosecutor in Luxembourg) as its new President. Mr Bent Sørensen (a Professor of Surgery from Denmark) was re-elected as the Committee's 1st Vice-President, and Mrs Nora Staels-Dompas (an Honorary Belgian Senator) became the 2nd Vice-President. The term of office of the members of the Bureau is two years (i.e. until September 1995). c. Budgetary questions 18. The CPT wishes to express its gratitude to the Secretary General and the Committee of Ministers for having accepted its budgetary requests for 1994 in respect of visits, meetings and Secretariat resources. As regards, more particularly, the last-mentioned point, the CPT's request for an additional administrative officer was accepted, and it is hoped that this official will actually take-up his/her duties by Autumn 1994. 19. The CPT trusts that the Secretary General and the Committee of Ministers will continue to give favourable consideration to its requests concerning Secretariat resources. As already indicated (see paragraph 8), there is presently a bottleneck of work at the level of the Committee's Secretariat, as a result of which the Committee's visit reports are still not being transmitted in good time and its post-visit on-going dialogue with States is being jeopardised. This situation should be alleviated by the arrival later this year of an additional administrative officer (cf. paragraph 18). Nevertheless, the CPT's Secretariat will remain very limited in relation to the tasks it is called upon to perform, tasks which will become even heavier as the Committee's activities expand in line with the increasing number of Parties to the Convention. 20. The CPT would also recall the remarks made in its 2nd General Report, that "arrangements might have to be made in due course to enable at least some CPT members to devote most of their professional activity to the Committee's work" (cf. CPT/Inf (92) 3, paragraph 34). In the Committee's opinion, the time is fast approaching when a retainer system following mutatis mutandis that applied within the European Commission of Human Rights will have to be introduced.