The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on State Building and Local Self-Government believes that the draft law on the abolition in Ukraine of benefits and privileges for officials of all branches of government, introduced by People's Deputy Leonid Chernovetsky, requires revision. \nAccording to the Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the proposed legislative proposal aims to increase the efficiency of the use of state property and increase budget expenditures for compensating citizens of Ukraine for lost monetary savings by abolishing benefits for officials. \nThe draft law proposes: to corporatize and privatize departmental enterprises, recreation and treatment institutions under the jurisdiction of the highest state bodies and central executive bodies; to repeal all normative acts that establish any personal benefits and privileges for officials of these bodies; to instruct the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to prepare a Program for the use of funds received as a result of these measures, directing them toward compensating citizens of Ukraine for lost monetary savings. \nCommittee members, while not objecting to the need to increase the efficiency of the use of state property, streamline benefits and increase budget expenditures for compensation of lost savings of Ukrainian citizens, drew attention to a number of provisions of the draft law that contradict the legislation of Ukraine and the legal principles set forth in Articles 22 and 49 of the Constitution of Ukraine. And the issue of reviewing the existing system of benefits, the People's Deputies believe, is insufficiently substantiated and not specified. \nAs for the proposal to abolish benefits for officials, this problem should be resolved only in conjunction with the general problem of streamlining benefits, since social benefits are a form of social protection for certain categories of the population, part of the social guarantees of the state provided for by legislative acts, the Committee members noted. \nIn addition, they believe, it should be borne in mind that the vast majority of types of benefits existing in Ukraine are compensatory in nature, that is, intended to compensate for health damage, harm caused, or the special nature of citizens' work. But in both cases they are social guarantees of the state and cannot be abolished or withdrawn, which is guaranteed by part three of Article 22 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which provides that when adopting new laws or introducing amendments to existing laws, the narrowing of the content and scope of existing rights and freedoms is not permitted. \n \n \n