The parliamentary preparatory working group has approved the decision to form 27 committees and an ad hoc supervisory board on privatization in the Verkhovna Rada of the seventh convocation.

An Interfax-Ukraine reporter said that the working group approved this decision at a meeting in Kyiv on Tuesday.

The Verkhovna Rada of the sixth convocation had 26 committees and an ad hoc supervisory board on privatization.

The working group voted to split the parliamentary committee on finance and banking, taxation and customs policy into two committees – a committee on finance and banking and a committee on taxation and customs policy.

At a meeting of the working group on Tuesday, a newly elected MP from the Batkivschyna United Opposition, Mykola Martynenko, said that the opposition does not support an initiative to increase the membership of parliamentary committees. He said the opposition has no objections to the profiles of the committees, but Batkivschyna insists that the number of members of parliamentary committees should be the same as in the parliament of the sixth convocation – 26 members.

In turn, MP Serhiy Sas said that he does not support the creation of the ad hoc supervisory board on privatization, which, according to him, did not fulfill its duties in the previous parliament.