Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of budget

Committee of the Verkhovna Rada; on issues of budget
Committee overview
Formed	June 28, 1990
Jurisdiction	Ukraine
Employees	27 deputies
Committee executive	Andriy Pavlenko, Chairman;
Website	budget.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
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

^ ^a ^b "Committee on issues of budget". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
^ "Secrets of parliamentary committees: money, betrayal and proctasticization". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2019-06-13.
^ "Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
^ 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)
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.

[current-1] "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]}

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