BRUSSELS, Sept 16 (Reuters) - 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
ADDITIONS
- Plans by Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali SpA to purchase a 99.5 percent stake in French insurance company Continent Holding from Italy's publishing-to-gambling conglomerate De Agostini. (Notified Sept 12/deadline Oct 15)
- Plans by the finance unit of Volkswagen AG to purchase a stake in the finance unit of Dutch auto-related machinery manufacturer PON. (Notified Sept 12/deadline Oct 15)
- Plans by the private equity funds Carlyle Group and Eurazeo to purchase Saint Gobain's Terreal brick-making unit. (Notified Sept 9/deadline Oct 10)
- Plans by Australia's PaperlinX Ltd to buy Dutch office supply group Buhrmann NV 's paper merchandising business. (Notified Sept 9/deadline Oct 10)
ONGOING ONE-MONTH REVIEWS:
- Plans by France's SNPE, Sweden's Saab AB and Finland's Patria Industries to merge their explosives and propellants businesses. (Notified Aug 20/extended to Oct 10)
- Plans by Philip Morris International (MO.N) to purchase 76 percent of Greece's leading tobacco manufacturer Papastratos (PAPr.AT) (Notified Sept 2/deadline Oct 3)
- Plans by Germany's biggest sugar refiner, Nordzucker AG, and Danish dairy co-operative Arla Foods to produce a new sweetener (Notified Sept 1/deadline Oct 2/candidate for simplified procedure).
- Plans by Germany's Phoenix Pharmahandel AG to acquire control of Nordic region's largest drug wholesaler Tamro Oyj (TRO1V.HE) of Finland (notified Aug 29/deadline Oct 1/candidate for simplified procedure).
- Plans by Ireland's CRH (CRH.I) to expand its Dutch operations through the 646 million euro purchase of some Cementbouw Handel & Industrie's operations from CVC. The remainder of Cementbouw would be jointly controlled by CRH and CVC (notified Aug 26/deadline Sept 29).
- Plans by Alcan (AL.TO), a Canadian producer of aluminium, to purchase France's Pechiney (PECH.PA), a maker of aluminium (notified August 14/deadline Sept 29)
- Plans by Amcor Limited (AMC.AX) of Australia, a packaging firm, to purchase Britain's Amcor Flexibles Europe, a maker of flexible packaging materials (notified August 22/deadline Sept 25/candidate for simplified procedure)
- Plans by Vestar Capital Partners of the United States to purchase FL Selenia of Italy, a maker of automotive and industrial lubricants and replacement parts for vehicles (notified August 19/deadline Sept 22/candidate for simplified procedure)
- Plans by Toshiba (6502.T) and Mitsubishi (8058.T) for a joint venture to make electric and automation systems for industrial manufacturing plants (notified August 18/deadline Sept 19/candidate for simplified procedure)
- Plans by Trelleborg of Sweden to purchase the polymer sealing solutions group of Smiths Group Plc of the United Kingdom (notified August 18/deadline Sept 19)
- Plans by American Express Financial Corporation, controlled by the American Express Company (AXP.N), to acquire control of British Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Limited (notified Aug 18/deadline Sept 19/candidate for simplified procedure).
- Plans by British telecommunications services provider Vodafone UK Limited, belonging to Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), to acquire control of British Singlepoint Limited and Corporate 4U Limited (notified Aug 13/deadline Sept 16)
- Plans by General Electric (GE.N) to buy a unit of Belgium's Agfa-Gevaert (AGFAt.BR) handling non-destructive testing (notified May 13/clock stopped May 14/notification and suspension announced May 27/clock restarted June 11/deadline July 11/suspended to seek further information).