Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of budget

  • Andriy Pavlenko, Chairman
Websitebudget.rada.gov.ua

The Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on issues of budget (Ukrainian: Комітет Верховної Ради України з питань бюджету, Komitet Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy z pytan’ biudzhety) or simply, the Budget Committee (Ukrainian: Бюджетний комітет, Biudzhetnyi komitet) is a standing committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament. The committee is one of the largest in the parliament's 8th convocation, consisting of 27 people's deputies.[2][3] Its entire composition was approved on December 4, 2014.

It was created on June 28, 1990 during the twelfth convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (first convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine) as the "Permanent Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR on issues of planning, budget, finances and prices" (Ukrainian: Комісія з питань планування, бюджету, фінансів і цін).[4] The committee's first chairman was Andriy Pecherov.

Presidium

On December 4, 2014, the Budget Committee's composition was approved by the Verkhovna Rada. Its presidium consists of six deputies:[1]

Office MP Since Party
Chairman Andriy Pavelko December 4, 2014 Petro Poroshenko Bloc
First Deputy Chairman Vasyl Amelchenko December 11, 2014[5] Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko
Deputy Chairman Sergiy Melnyk December 4, 2014 Independent
Deputy Chairman Oleksiy Savchenko Petro Poroshenko Bloc
Deputy Chairman Viktor Kryvenko Self Reliance
Secretary Volodymyr Shkvarylyuk Fatherland

Scope

The Budget Committee's scope is to draft, prepare, and consider laws within the authority of the Verkhovna Rada, and to perform control functions in the following areas of its jurisdiction:[6]

  • state fiscal policy and intergovernmental relations;
  • state budget of Ukraine (including issues of income, expenditures, and monitoring the implementation of the budget);
  • budgeting;
  • internal and external public debt;
  • examination on the impact of bills, drafts of other acts on budget performance and compliance with laws governing fiscal relations;
  • activities of public financial institutions;
  • activities of the Accounting Chamber

Subcommittees

The Budget Committee consists of the following subcommittees:[7]

  • Subcommittee on the evaluation of draft laws regarding the impact on the budget figures and compliance with budget legislation
  • Subcommittee on the state budget revenues
  • Subcommittee on the state debt and state budget financing
  • Subcommittee on the state budget expenditures
  • Subcommittee on the state budget social programs
  • Subcommittee on the state budget investment programs
  • Subcommittee on the local budgets
  • Subcommittee on the state financial control and activity of the Accounting Chamber
  • Subcommittee on the improving provisions of the Budget Code of Ukraine
  • Subcommittee on the budget support of regional development
  • Subcommittee on the budget policy

References

  1. ^ a b "Committee on issues of budget". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Secrets of parliamentary committees: money, betrayal and proctasticization". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  3. ^ "Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  4. ^ Laws of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR decree No. 19-XII: Про обрання голів постійних комісій Верховної Ради Української РСР (On the election of chairmen of permanent commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR). Adopted on June 28, 1990. (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ "Members of committees were switched up to suit Lyashko. Poroshenko's son was also moved" (in Ukrainian). Korrespondent.net. December 11, 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Committee's Competence". Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of budget (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 11 April 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  7. ^ "Structure of the committee". Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of budget (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 9 December 2014.[permanent dead link]

External links

  • "Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on issues of budget". Official website (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2014.