The European Parliament adopted by 574 votes to 113, with 2 abstentions, a resolution on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2017 of the European Union for the financial year 2017 increasing the budgetary resources of the Youth Employment Initiative to pursue the reduction of youth unemployment across the European Union and updating the staff establishment plans of the decentralised agency ACER and the joint undertaking SESAR2.
Parliament approved the Council’s position on draft amending budget No 3/2017.
This draft aims to:
Parliament stressed the urgent need to further increase Union’s financial commitment in the fight against the youth unemployment through additional funding for the YEI. It regretted the delay, due to the blockage and late approval by the Council of the mid-term MFF revision, in the modification of the Union budget for 2017.
Members called on the Commission and the Member States to ensure swift reprogramming of the relevant operational programmes in order to ensure that the whole additional YEI envelope of EUR 500 million is fully and efficiently committed by the end of 2017.
Lastly, Parliament took note of the modifications of the establishment plans of the decentralised agency ACER and of the joint undertaking SESAR2, noting that those modifications do not affect the total number of posts and that they can be financed within the bodies’ annual budget for this year.