BRUSSELS, June 25 (Reuters) - Following are additions and deletions to takeovers, mergers and joint ventures under European Commission merger regulation review. (See end for guide to EU merger processes)
DELETIONS
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ADDITIONS
-- Plans by British private equity fund manager Doughty Hanson & Co Limited to gain control of Germany's car parts service AFM Autofahrerefachmarkt GmbH & Co KG owned by German retail companies ATU Group and Diana Kfz-Textil GmbH and the Czech APS Autopotreby a sluzby s.r.o. (notified June 17/deadline July 18/candidate for simplified procedure)
ONGOING ONE-MONTH REVIEWS:
-- Plans by DB Cargo, owned by Germany railway Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL] and Contship Italia, for a joint venture for intermodal container transport (notified June 13/deadline July 7)
-- Plans by Fortis, owned by Group Fortis of Belgium and the Netherlands to buy Bernheim-Comofi, controlled by Security Capital European Realty of Luxembourg. Both are in the realty markets (notified June 11/deadline July 12)
-- Plans by Saipem of Italy to purchase Bouygues Offshore of France. Saipem lays underdwater pipelines and BOS consturcts offshore gas and oil facilities (notified June 3/deadlineJuly 4)
-- Plans by auditor Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu [DLTE.UL] to purchase the British operations of rival Andersen (notified May 29/deadline July 1)
-- Plans by France's Natexis Banques Populaires to buy Coface , whicn provides export credit insurance (notified May 29/deadline July 1)
- Plans by French explosives producer and mining company Societe Anonyme d'Explosifs et de produits Chimiques (EPC) to gain joint control of German mining service industry SAARMontan currently controlled by Germany's mining enterprise RAG AG (notified May 28/deadline July 1)
-- Plans by AMCOR of Australia to purchase PET packaging firm Schmalbach-Lubeca of Germany (notified May 29/deadline July 1)
- Plans by British petroleum refiner BP to gain control of German petroleum and chemical prooducer/refiner Veba Oel jointly contolled by BP and E.ON AG (notified May 29/deadline July 1)
-- Plans by a German unit of Texas Utilities of the United states to purchase Braunschweiger Versorgungs of Germany. Both firms are involved with the production and supply of utilities (notified May 29/deadline July 1/candidate for simplified procedure)
-- Plans by Swedish telecoms firm Telia to purchase Finland's Sonera , a provider of fixed and mobile telephone services (notified May 28/deadline July 1)
-- Plans by the Ondeo unit of France's Suez and a British unit of Germany's RWE , Thames Water, for a joint venture to open an Internet B2B for the water industry (notified May 28/deadline July 1/simplified procedure cancelled June 13)
-- Plans by a unit of TPG of the Netherlands to purchase two subsidiaries of DSV of Denmark, DSV Logistice Holding and DFDS Transport. All of the firms are in the business of gneeral logistics services (notified May 24/deadline June 27/candidate for simplified review)
-- Plans by Italy's Fin Ba S.p.A., a unit of the pasta producer Barilla Group, and the Banca Popolare di Lodi S.c.a.r.l. (BPL-Italy), to gain joint control of the German bakery Kamps Ag by public bid (notified May 8/deadline June 14/extended to June 25)