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BRUSSELS, March 27 (Reuters) - The following are mergersunder review by the European Commission and a brief guide to theEU merger process:
APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS
-- Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial to buyBritish utility services company Enterprise Plc (approved March25)
-- Investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equityfirm TPG Lundy to acquire joint control of British electronicsparts maker Exception Group Ltd, which is controlled by Britishbank Lloyds (approved March 25)
NEW LISTINGS
None
EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES
-- Swedish refiner Nynas to purchase certain assets fromRoyal Dutch Shell's Harburg refinery (notified Feb.19/deadline extended to Aug. 8 from March 26 after theCommission opens an in-depth investigation)
-- Greek carrier Aegean Airlines to buy OlympicAir (notified Feb. 28/deadline extended to April 23from April 9 after Aegean offered commitments)
FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE
APRIL 4
-- Private equity funds Ratos and Ferd to acquirejoint control of Norwegian oil platform construction companyAibel Group (notified Feb. 25/deadline April 4/simplified)
-- German carmaker Volkswagen to acquire jointcontrol of car leasing company Ron Equipment Rental & Lease,which is a unit of car distributor Pon Holdings BV (notifiedFeb. 25/deadline April 4)
APRIL 5
-- German media company Bertelsmann and Britain'sPearson to merge their publishers Random House andPenguin (notified Feb 26/deadline April 5)
APRIL 8
-- Investment fund Oaktree to buy construction companyCountryside (notified Feb. 27/deadline April 8)
APRIL 10
-- U.S. carmaker General Motors to acquire solecontrol of diesel engine maker Ispol, which is now jointlycontrolled by GM and Isuzu Motors (notified March1/deadline April 10/simplified)
APRIL 12
-- Dutch dairy company FrieslandCampina to buy Dutch cheesewholesalers Zijerveld & Veldhuyzen B.V. and Den Hollander B.V.(notified Feb. 19/deadline extended to April 12 from March 26after FrieslandCampina offered concessions)
-- French energy network manager ERDF, which is a unit ofFrench power company EDF, French state-owned bankCaisse des Depots et Consignations (CDS), and electricitycompany UEM to set up a software joint venture (March 5/April12/simplified)
APRIL 14
-- Polish lender Alior Bank and Austria's ErsteGroup Bank to acquire joint control of Polish personalcare products retailer Polbita (notified March 8/deadline April14/simplified)
APRIL 15
-- U.S. cable group Liberty Global to acquireBritish peer Virgin Media (notified March 6/deadlineApril 15)
APRIL 16
-- U.S. conglomerate General Electric and Germanreinsurer Munich Re to acquire joint control ofSpanish energy company Iberdrola's wind power operatorIberdrola Renovables France (notified March 7/deadline April16/simplified)
APRIL 17
-- U.S. oilfield equipment maker Cameron International Corp and U.S. oilfield services company Schlumberger to combine their subsea businesses (notified March 8/deadlineApril 17)
APRIL 19
-- German engineering company Siemens to buyBritish technology company Invensys' rail business(notified March 12/deadline April 19)
APRIL 22
-- Japanese trading house Mitsui Group to acquirestake in Spanish autoparts maker Gestamp Automocion jointcontrol of Gestamp Automocio's U.S. businesses (notified March13/deadline April 22/simplified)
-- Investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equityfirm TPG Lundy to buy British real estate developer TullochHomes Group from British lender Lloyds Bank (notifiedFeb. 13/deadline April 22)
APRIL 23
-- U.S. ceramic tile maker Mohawk Industries to acquirepanel board maker Spano Invest, which is majority-owned byBelgian holding company Ackermans & Van Haaren (notified March 14/deadline April 23)
APRIL 25
-- Private equity firms Bridgepoint Advisers Group Ltd and Orlando Italy Management S.A. to acquire Italianperfume distributor Bergamotto (notified March 18/deadline April25/simplified)
-- Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro andNorwegian peer Orkla to merge their extruded aluminiumunits via a joint venture (notified March 18/deadline April 25)
APRIL 26
-- German optical technology company Carl Zeiss to acquire sole control of eyewear maker Carl Zeiss VisionHolding GmbH (notified March 19/deadline April26/simplified)
APRIL 30
-- German rail operator Deutsche Bahn to acquiresole control of eastern European bus services company VeoliaTransport Central Europe which is a majority-owned unit ofFrench transport company Veolia Transport Transdev Group (notified March 21/deadline April 30)
MAY 30
-- U.S. communications company Syniverse Technologies to buy Luxembourg-based communications servicescompany Mach (notified Nov. 16/deadline extended for the secondtime to May 30 from May 15 after the companies asked for moretime)
JUNE 7
-- Finnish paper producer Ahlstrom to merge witha unit of Swedish company Munksjo, which is partly owned byprivate equity fund EQT (notified Oct. 31/deadline extended forthe second time to June 7 from May 16 after Ahlstrom offeredconcessions)
GUIDE TO EU MERGER PROCESS
DEADLINES:
The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal is filed 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 Commission opens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to 90 additional working days, which it may extend to 105 working days.
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.
