Translation of "prendre en charge ses dépens " (French → English) :

Cuts in social security benefits and to the budgets for social welfare infrastructure, education, childcare, health and care services has led to households – normally women –taking over these responsibilities.

28. Notes the positive steps made in the current reform of the Transparency Directive (2004/109/EG) and of the Accounting Directive (2003/51/EG) in addressing the issue of CSR while balancing the legitimate quest for transparency and responsibility with the burden of reporting by companies; calls on the Commission to ensure that companies falling under these directives are obliged to report regularly on their CSR activities, in line with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Companies, while ensuring special arrangements for SMEs in order to make the reporting financially and administratively feasible;

2. A successful party may be ordered to bear his own costs and to pay some or all of the costs incurred by the other party if this appears justified by the conduct of that party, including before the proceedings were brought, especially if he has made the other party incur costs which are held to be unreasonable or vexatious.

However, if it appears justified in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal may order that one party, in addition to bearing his own costs, pay a proportion of the costs of the other party.

10. Calls therefore, on the Commission and Member States urgently to take steps, in line with Parliament’s position set out in its resolution of 8 July 2008 on the environmental impact of the planned gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea to link up Russia and Germany, to ensure that projects under the Action Plan properly assess and mitigate the negative environmental effects of the gas pipeline scheme; also considers that Nord Stream itself must be responsible for financing the measures needed to ensure that the Baltic Sea environment is not harmed as a result of the ...[+++]construction of the gas pipeline; calls, at the same time, for projects which are unnecessary because they can be carried out on land to be avoided in future;

The Community Patent Court will adjudicate upon costs in accordance with Article 38 of the Statute and the relevant provisions of the Rules of Procedure which would lay down detailed provisions on which party ultimately has to bear the costs as is the case for the Court of Justice in Articles 69 ff. and the Court of First Instance in Articles 87 ff of their respective Rules of Procedure.