The EU Council appointed, on 10 February, Markus Wallner from Austria (governor of Vorarlberg - change of mandate) and Ondrej Benesik (mayor of Strání), Stepánka Frankova (mayor of the city of Pardubice), Dan Jiranek (mayor of the city of Kladno) and Juraj Thoma (mayor of the Czech city of Budejovice - change of mandate), all from Czech Republic, as members of the EU Committee of the Regions for the remainder of the current term of office, which runs until 25 January 2015.