Youth Employment Initiative: additional initial prefinancing amount paid to operational programmes

A legislative dossier on an additional initial pre-financing amount paid to operational programmes under the Youth Employment Initiative. The amendments tie the pre-financing to immediate implementation and decreasing youth unemployment, require reimbursement to the Commission if interim payment applications fall below a set share, cite record youth unemployment and the Europe 2020 strategy, link delays to budgetary constraints, and call for impact assessment of YEI actions.