Orders Microsoft to bear its own costs and to pay 95 % of the costs incurred by the European Commission, excluding the costs incurred by the Commission in connection with the intervention of The Computing Technology Industry Association, Inc. and the Association for Competitive Technology, Inc., and 80 % of the costs incurred by the Free Software Foundation Europe eV and Samba Team, the Software Information Industry Association, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, International Business Machines Corp., Red Hat Inc. and Oracle Corp.;

The Commission should also be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU in respect of technical adjustments to Directive 2006/49/EC to clarify definitions to ensure uniform application of that Directive or to take account of developments on financial markets; to adjust the amounts of initial capital prescribed by certain provisions of that Directive and specific amounts relevant to the calculation of capital requirements for the trading book to take account of developments in the economic and monetary field; to adjust the categories of investment firms eligible for certain derogations to required minimum levels of own funds to tak ...[+++]e account of developments on financial markets; to clarify the requirement that investment firms hold own funds equivalent to one quarter of their fixed overheads of the preceding year to ensure uniform application of that Directive; to align terminology and definitions with subsequent relevant acts; to adjust technical provisions of that Directive on the calculation of capital requirements for various classes of risk and large exposures, on the use of internal models to calculate capital requirements and on trading in order to take account of developments on financial markets or in risk measurement or accounting standards, or in Union legislation, or which have regard to the convergence of supervisory practices; and to take account of the outcome of the review of various matters relating to the scope of Directive 2004/39/EC.

Noting differences between various Directives currently in force as to the restrictions posed on investments by institutional investors, the Council invites the Commission to evaluate the effects of the current rules for investing in private equity/venture capital in the Life Assurance Directive and to take into account the possibilities for investing in venture capital in the review of the UCITS Directive, which is foreseen in the Directive for 2005; welcomes the intention of the Commission to review state-aid policy for risk capital; finds that the new EU framework of capital adequacy rules implementing the Basel II accord should appropriately take into account the EU lower risk-profile specificity of risk-capital investments via suffic ...[+++]iently diversified portfolios and stresses that it shall give special consideration to this factor in the legislative process leading to the new Capital Adequacy Framework".

In Case T-318/94, Société Artésienne de Vinyle is ordered to bear two thirds of its own costs and the Commission is ordered to bear one third of the applicant's costs in addition to its own costs'.

'1. Dismisses the application; 2. Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and those of the Council, including those of the application for the adoption of interim measures, and the costs of the intervener Péchiney Électrométallurgie; 3. Orders the Chambre Syndicale de l'Électrométallurgie et de l'Électrochimie and the Commission to bear their own costs'.

0.2. Orders the applicant to pay all the costs relating to the claim for damages; 0.3. Orders the parties to bear their own costs relating to the application for annulment'.