BRUSSELS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The following cases have been added or deleted to the takeovers, mergers and joint ventures that are under review by the European Commission. (See at the end for a guide to the EU merger processes)
DELETIONS
-- Plans by U.S. private equity firm the Blackstone Group and British finance house Apax Europe to purchase German waste disposal firm the SULO Group. The firms had not agreed sale terms at the time of the notification (cleared Jan 16).
-- Plans for a joint venture between Volkswagen AG and steel and technology firm Salzgitter AG (cleared Jan 16)
ADDITIONS
-- Plans by Spanish Capital Riesgo Global CRG SA, controlled by Banco Santander Central Hispano SA (BSCH) , and Royal Bank Investments Limited (RBI), controlled by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) , to acquire joint control of British Doncasters Group Limited (notified Jan 5/deadline February 2/candidate for simplified procedure)
-- Plans by undertakings Royal Bank Investments Ltd (RBI), controlled by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) ,and Capital Riesgo Global SCR SA, controlled by Banco Santander Central Hispano SA (BSCH) , to acquire joint control of the undertaking Britax International Plc (notified Jan 5/deadline Feb 6/candidate for simplified procedure)
-- Plans by paper and packaging producer Mondi Packaging Holding AG, controlled by Anglo American Plc , to acquire control of Austrian undertaking Roman Bauernfeind Holding AG (notified Dec 23/deadline Feb 5/candidate for simplified procedure)
ONGOING ONE-MONTH REVIEWS:
-- Plans by Germany's Bertelsmann AG [BERT.UL] and Sony to merge their music businesses (notified Jan 9/deadline Feb 12)
-- Plans by Cofinoga of France, belonging to Galeries Lafayette , and Quelle SAS, belonging to Germany's Karstadt Quelle , for a joint venture, Compagnie de Gestion et des Prets of France, CDGP, and La Source SARL of France, which will do consumer credit. Quelle is a mail order business while La Source does insurance (notified on Dec 22/deadline Feb 2)
-- Plans by French mutual bank Groupe Banque Populaire and German bank Deutsche Zentral-Genossenchaftsbank for a joint venture (notified Jan 6/deadline Feb 9/candidate for simplified procedure)
-- Plans by Telenor ASA to take total ownership of Danish wirelss provider Sonofon, purchasing the stake owned by U.S. telephone company BellSouth Corp (notified Jan 5/deadline Feb 6/candidate for simplified procedure)
-- Plans by Britain's LNM Group to buy Poland's state-owned steel group Polskie Huty Stali (PHS) for $1.05 billion (notified Dec 23/Deadline Feb 5)
-- Plans by France's Schneider Electric to buy uninterruptible power supply company MGE UPS Systems (notified dec 23/deadline Feb 5)
-- Plans by Norwegian industrial group Norsk Hydro and German gas company Wingas GmbH for a joint venture for natural gas marketing and sales in Britain (notified Dec 22/deadline Feb 4)
-- Plans for the purchase of Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields by South Africa's AngloGold (notified Dec 17/deadline Jan 29/candidate for simplified procedure)
-- Plans by Britain's Hogg Robinson to buy a division of Europe's sixth-largest travel firm, Kuoni of Switzerland (notified Dec 18/deadline Jan 29/candidate for simplified procedure)
-- Plans by Air France to purchase Dutch airline KLM (notified Dec 18/deadline Jan 29)
-- Plans by British recruitment and logistics firm Hays Plc to sell part of its logistics arm to U.S. buyout firm Platinum Equity (notified Dec 12/deadline Jan 27/candidate for simplified procedure)
-- Plans by Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL] to sell its steel trading and chemicals distribution units to U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital (notified Dec 10/deadline Jan 22)
-- Plans by DuPont Co
to sell its Invista clothing and carpet fibre business to polyester maker Koch Industries Inc (notified Dec 8/deadline Jan 21)-- Plans by General Electric to acquire control of British healthcare firm Amersham (notified Dec 8/deadline Jan 21)