Amending budget No 3/2017

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 3/2017, COM(2017) 288 - 30 May 2017
Council's position: 4 September 2017
Parliament's position: 13 September 2017

The purpose of Amending Budget (AB) No 3 for the year 2017 is twofold:

• The provision of EUR 500 million of additional commitment appropriations to the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) as agreed by the European Parliament and the Council in their agreement on the budget 2017. No reinforcement in payment appropriations is proposed.
• An amendment of the establishment plans of the decentralised agency ACER and the joint undertaking SESAR2, without incurring any changes to the overall budget or the total number of posts.