Organisational matters CPT membership 85. At the time of publication of this General Report, the CPT has 44 members. The seats in respect of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” are currently vacant. Twenty six of the CPT’s members are men, and eighteen are women. Consequently, applying the “less-than-40%” criterion used by the Parliamentary Assembly when examining lists of candidates, at present neither sex is under-represented in the Committee. 86. The period covered by this General Report has seen considerable changes in the composition of the CPT, as a result in particular of the biennial renewal of the Committee’s membership which became effective at the end of 2011. A total of sixteen persons left the CPT during that period, including some of the Committee’s most experienced members. On 19 December 2011, Tim Dalton (elected in respect of Ireland), Mario Felice (Malta), Eugenijus Gefenas (Lithuania), Pétur Hauksson (Iceland), Dajena Kumbaro (Albania), Sonja KurténVartio (Finland), Petros Michaelides (Cyprus), Marc Nève (Belgium), Vladimir Ortakov (“the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”), Mauro Palma (Italy), Joan-Miquel Rascagneres (Andorra), Anna Šabatová (Czech Republic), Elena Sereda (Russian Federation) and Arman Vardanyan (Armenia) ceased to be CPT members on the expiry of their terms of office. Further, Baltasar Garzon Réal (Spain) resigned from the Committee on 28 February 2012, and Ivan Janković (Serbia) on 18 December 2011. In parallel, fourteen new CPT members have been elected: Djorde Alempijević (Serbia), Sean Aylward (Ireland), Joan Cabeza Gimenez (Andorra), Maïté De Rue (Belgium), Andreana Esposito (Italy), Natalia Khutorskaya (Russian Federation), Alfred Koçobashi (Albania), Andrés Magnússon (Iceland), Ivan Mifsud (Malta), Costakis Paraskeva (Cyprus), Jan Pfeiffer (Czech Republic), Jari Pirjola (Finland), Vytautas Raškauskas (Lithuania) and Arman Tatoyan (Armenia). And the following eight members were re-elected to the Committee: Celso José Das Neves Manata (Portugal), Dan Dermengiu (Romania), Haritini Dipla (Greece), Lətif Hüseynov (Azerbaijan), Marzena Ksel (Poland), Maria Rita Morganti (San Marino), Ilvija Pūce (Latvia) and Olivera Vulić (Montenegro). A list of the CPT’s members is set out in Appendix 4 and abridged curricula vitae are posted on the Committee’s website. 87. The procedure to fill the 22 seats in the CPT which will fall vacant on 19 December 2013 has now been set in motion. The Committee hopes that all the national delegations concerned in the Parliamentary Assembly will put forward candidates in good time, so as to enable the Bureau of the Assembly to forward the lists of names to the Committee of Ministers by the end of June 2013 at the latest. If the election procedure for all the seats can be completed before the 37