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BRUSSELS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The following are mergersunder review by the European Commission and a brief guide to theEU merger process:

APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS

-- Czech investor EPH and private equity group PPFInvestments to buy from Sweden's state-owned utility Vattenfall lignite mines and power plants in Germany - VattenfallMining and Vattenfall Generation (approved Sept. 22)

NEW LISTINGS

-- German insurer Talanx and UK investment groupAberdeen Asset Management to jointly acquire Portuguesedeveloper Escala Vila Franca and Portuguese parking operator PNHParque (notified Sept. 21/deadline Oct. 26/simplified)

EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES

None

FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE

SEPT 23

-- Triton Group to acquire sole control over Stromboli,holding entity of Flakt Woods (notified Aug. 19/deadline Sept.23)

-- FIH Mobile to buy from Microsoft Mobile Vietnam and otherassets from Microsoft Mobile (notified Aug. 19/deadlineSept. 23)

SEPT 28

-- Deutsche Boerse and the London Stock Exchange plan to merge (notified Aug. 24/deadline Sept. 28)

OCT 4

-- Private equity firm PAI Partners to acquire Dutch holidaypark operator RP Group (notified Aug. 30/deadline Oct.4/simplified)

OCT 5

-- Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co Ltd to acquireJapanese peer Mitsubishi Motors Corp (notified Aug.31/deadline Oct. 5)

OCT 6

-- U.S. electric component distributor Avnet toacquire British Raspberry Pi mini-computer maker Premier Farnell (notified Sept. 1/deadline Oct. 6)

OCT 7

-- Meat processing company ABP Food Group to acquire a 50percent stake in Irish beef producer Slaney Food (notified Sept.2/deadline Oct. 7)

-- Swedish telecoms operator Tele2 to acquire Danish peerTDC's Swedish subsidiary TDC Sverige AB (notified Sept.2/deadline Oct. 7)

OCT 10

-- German cement producers Heidelbergcement andSchwenk to jointly acquire Mexican peer Cemex's Croatian unit (notified Sept. 5/deadline Oct. 10)

OCT 12

-- U.S. laser tools and systems maker Coherent toacquire laser developer and manufacturer Rofin-SinarTechnologies (notified Sept. 7/deadline Oct. 12)

-- China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) toacquire crop protection maker Adama Agricultural Solutions from Israel's Discount Investment Corp (notified Sept.Sept. 7/deadline Oct. 12/simplified)

-- UK property developer Segro and Canada's PublicSector Pension Investment Board to jointly acquire a Polishlogistics unit (notified Sept. 7/deadline Oct. 12/simplified)

-- French jewellery retailer Thom S.A.S., which is owned byprivate equity firm Bridgepoint Group Ltd, to acquire Italianpeer Stroili Oro S.p.A. (notified Sept. 7/deadline Oct.12/simplified)

OCT 13

-- Private equity firm BC Partners to acquireplastic products maker Keter and holding company Jardin(notified Sept. 8/deadline Oct. 13/simplified)

-- Singaporean palm oil processor Wilmar toacquire commodity trader Bunge Ltd's stake in aVietnamese oilseed crushing business (notified Sept. 8/deadlineOct. 13/simplified)

OCT 14

-- Private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Austrianholding company WM Holding to jointly acquire French furnitureretailer Deconneubles Partners SAS (BUT)(notified Sept.9/deadline Oct. 14/simplified)

-- Chinese household appliances company Midea Group to acquire German industrial robot maker Kuka (notified Sept. 9/deadline Oct. 14/simplified)

-- Private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Austrianholding company WM Holding to jointly acquire French furnitureretailer Decomeubles Partners SAS (notified Sept. 9/deadlineOct. 14/simplified)

-- French minerals company Imerys to acquirealumina producer Alteo ARC and Alufin GmbH Tabularoxid fromAlteo Holding SAS(notified Sept. 9/deadline Oct. 14)

-- Indonesian waste management company GLM, Singaporeanindustrial company Multico, Japanese chemical producer TorayGroup and Japense trading company Toyota Tsusho Corp to set up ajoint venture (notified Sept. 9/deadline Oct. 14/simplified)

OCT 17

-- Belgian wind energy producer Eneco Wind Belgium NV andBelgian peer Elicio NV to set up a joint venture (notified Sept.12/deadline Oct. 17/simplified)

OCT 18

-- Australian logistics company Brambles and FirstReserve Management L.P. to set up a joint venture (notifiedSept. 13/deadline Oct. 18/simplified)

-- Beijing Jianguang Asset Management Co Ltd to acquirechipmaker NXP Semiconductors' standard prodcutsbusiness unit Nexperia (notified Sept. 13/deadline Oct.18/simplified)

OCT 20

-- U.S. pulp and paper company International Paper Co to acquire Weyerhaeuser's pulp business (notified Sept.15/deadline Oct. 20)

-- Private equity firms Blackstone and New MountainCapital to jointly acquire software provider Ida Software(notified Sept. 15/deadline Oct. 20/simplified)

-- Private equity firms Advent International and Thomas H.Lee Partners to jointly acquire pharmaceutical services providerInVentiv (notified Sept. 15/deadline Oct. 20/simplified)

OCT 21

-- Aeroporti di Roma subsidiary Atlantia and French energycompany EDF to jointly acquire airport operator SocieteAeroports de la Cote d'Azur (ACA) (notified Sept. 16/deadlineOct. 21/simplified)

-- Private equity firm Cinven to acquire Italianinsurer Old Mutual Wealth Italy (notified Sept. 16/deadline Oct.21/simplified)

-- German tourism company TUI AG to acquire Frenchpeer Transat France's French and Greek tour operatingunits (notified Sept. 16/deadline Oct. 21)

OCT 24

-- German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim to acquire Frenchpeer Sanofi's animal health business (notified Sept.19/deadline Oct. 24)

-- U.S. rail equipment maker Wabtec Corp to acquireFrench peer Faiveley Transport SA (notified April4/deadline Oct. 24/commitments offered July 25)

SUSPENDED

-- U.S. chemicals company Dow Chemical to merge withDuPont (notified June 22/deadline suspended aftercompanies failed to provide key information)

-- SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state energy company, to buy stakesin Greek natural gas grid operator DESFA from Greek natural gasutility DEPA (notified Oct. 1/deadline suspended on Jan. 21)

GUIDE TO EU MERGER PROCESS

DEADLINES:

The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal isfiled for a first-stage review. It may extend that by 10 workingdays to 35 working days, to consider either a company's proposedremedies or an EU member state's request to handle the case.

Most mergers win approval but occasionally the Commissionopens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to 90additional working days, which it may extend to 105 workingdays.

SIMPLIFIED:

Under the simplified procedure, the Commission announces theclearance of uncontroversial first-stage mergers without givingany reason for its decision. Cases may be reclassified asnon-simplified - that is, ordinary first-stage reviews - untilthey are approved. (Compiled by Foo Yun Chee)