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having regard to Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, — having regard to Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, — having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (1), and in particular Article 41 thereof, — having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2017, as definitively adopted on 1 December 2016 (2), — having regard to Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 of 2 December 2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-2020 (3) (MFF Regulation), — having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management (4), — having regard to the Special Report 5/2017 of the European Court of Auditors ‘Youth unemployment — have EU policies made a difference? An assessment of the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative’, — having regard to Council Decision 2014/335/EU, Euratom of 26 May 2014 on the system of own resources of the European Union (5), — having regard to Draft amending budget No 3/2017, which the Commission adopted on 30 May 2017 (COM(2017)0288), — having regard to the position on Draft amending budget No 3/2017 which the Council adopted on 4 September 2017 and forwarded to Parliament on the same day (11812/2017 — C8-0303/2017), — having regard to Rules 88 and 91 of its Rules of Procedure, — having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A8-0282/2017), A. whereas Draft amending budget No 3/2017 relates to 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, as well as to 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; B. whereas the European Parliament and the Council invited the Commission to propose an amending budget in 2017 in order to provide EUR 500 million for the YEI in 2017 financed by the Global Margin for Commitments, as soon as the technical adjustment provided for in Article 6 of the MFF Regulation is adopted; C. whereas, following the adoption of the technical adjustment, the Commission consequently proposes to amend the Union budget for 2017 and increase Article 04 02 64 ‘Youth Employment Initiative’; D. whereas in the context of the mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the European Parliament and the Council have agreed on a top-up of EUR 1,2 billion for the YEI for the years 2017-2020 and the European Parliament underlined in its statement linked to the mid-term MFF revision that that limit is of political nature without any legal implications; E. whereas in the context of the mid-term revision of the MFF, the Commission also underlined in its statement, that consideration should be given to increase the funding for YEI beyond the amount of EUR 1,2 billion agreed by using margins available under the Global Margin for Commitments in accordance with Article 14 of the MFF Regulation; F. whereas the requirement for the 2017 reclassification exercise is necessary for both the decentralised agency ACER and the joint undertaking SESAR2;