The Ukrainian Government will have a new structure consisting of 14 ministries instead of the current 20, and some ministries, including the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, will change their name.
Also the new concept envisages reducing the staff of ministries and other central executive bodies, in some places by more than half, reports ZN.UA
Such a concept was agreed at the meeting by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi with Prime Minister Denys Shmygal, Deputy Prime Ministers and members of the Government.
The article noted that the new concept involves a change in the management structure of the Cabinet of Ministers, in particular, the planned appearance of the Government Center, which will report to the Prime Minister.
The authors indicated that the new structure of the Government will probably have the following form:
- Ministry of Environment – changes name to Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources;
- The Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Government Office for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories will unite in Ministry of Infrastructure and Territorial Development;
- The Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Strategic Industries (in part) and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food – Ministry of Economic Development;
- The Ministry of Digital Transformation, the National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service (civil service) and the Ministry for Strategic Industries (in part) – Ministry of Digital Transformation ;
- The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy and will add the issue of European and Euro-Atlantic integration – Ministry of European integration, culture and information policy;
- The Ministry of Veterans Affairs and the Ministry of Social Policy – Ministry of Veteran Affairs and Social Policy.
The material emphasized that the following ministries remain unchanged:
- Ministry of Energy;
- Ministry of International Affairs;
- Ministry of Finance;
- Department of Justice;
- Ministry of Internal Affairs;
- Ministry of Defence;
- Ministry of Education and Science;
- Ministry of Health.
The authors also described how the number of employees of ministries and other central executive bodies will change:
- in the central offices of ministries – from 9,200 to 2,800 employees;
- in territorial bodies of ministries – from 17,000 to more than 7,000 employees;
- in the central offices of other Central Committees – from 13,000 to 4,300 employees;
- in terror gangs of other Central Military Districts – from about 80 to more than 40 thousand employees.
The material also explained that the Government, within its own constitutional powers, can independently determine its own structure within the existing budget.
As EcoPolitic reported before, Ukraine plan to optimize the Cabinet of Ministers to reduce the number of ministries from 20 to 12, including the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture, and the central executive authorities – by 30%.
