Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of budget

Committee of the Verkhovna Rada
on issues of budget
Committee overview
FormedJune 28, 1990 (1990-06-28)
JurisdictionUkraine
Employees27 deputies[1]
Committee executive
  • 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]

Subcommittees

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

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]