No they not decoupling they are load capacitors for the crystal. Their value should be twice the value shown on the crystal's data sheet minus the capacitance of the micro pins and PCB tracks. Other values will work but the frequency will be slightly out.
However, in this application I think the error will be too small to notice. Very important if you are making a real time clock for example, and possibly an issue with on board Ethernet PHYs, etc.
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