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BRUSSELS, May 26 (Reuters) - The following are mergers underreview by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EUmerger process:
APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS
-- Swiss agricultural trader Ecom Agroindustrial to acquireArmajaro Holdings' commodity trading arm (approved May 23)
NEW LISTINGS
-- British telecoms operator Vodafone to acquireSpanish cables company Ono (notified May 23/deadliine July 2)
-- Private equity firms The Carlyle Group and PAIPartners to jointly acquire French sensors maker Custom Sensors& Technologies from French electrical gear maker SchneiderElectric (notified May 22/deadline July 1/simplified)
EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES
-- Spanish telecoms provider Telefonica to buyDutch peer KPN's German unit (notified Oct. 31/deadlineextended to July 10 from July 3)
FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE
JUNE 3
-- Private French agro-industrial group Soufflet to takesole control of French bakery group Neuhauser (notified April23/deadline June 3/simplified)
JUNE 10
-- Italian insurer Unipol to sell assets to Germanpeer Allianz (notified April 29/deadline June 10)
JUNE 11
-- Danish cooperative food company Danish Crown to acquireremaining 50 percent of Saturn Nordic Holding AB, which owns pork and beef processing firm Sokolow, from Finnish food companyHKScan OYJ (notified April 30/deadline June 11/simplified)
JUNE 12
-- Heidelberger Leben Holding AG, which is owned by privateequity firm Cinven Capital Management, to acquire insurerSkandia's units in Germany and Austria (notified May 2/deadlineJune 12/simplified)
-- U.S. chemical manufacturer Ashland Inc to sellits water technologies unit to private equity firm Clayton,Dubilier & Rice (notified May 2/deadline June 12)
JUNE 13
-- British utility Centrica, iCON InfrastructurePartners and Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners to buy theretail arm and other assets of Irish state-owned power providerBord Gais Energy (notified May 5/deadline June 13)
JUNE 16
-- U.S. firm Federal-Mogul Corp to buy part of thefriction materials business, including the European frictionmaterials business, of Honeywell International Inc (notified April 16/deadline extended to June 16 from May 28after Federal-Mogul offered commitments)
-- Kuwaiti state oil group Kuwait Petroleum Corp to acquireItalian petroleum product companies Shell Italia SpA and ShellItalia Aviazione Srl from energy company Royal Dutch Shell (notified May 6/deadline June 16)
-- Japanese metals maker Hitachi Metals Ltd toacquire a 51 percent stake in MMC Superalloy Corp which is nowsolely controlled by Mitsubishi Materials Corp (notified May 6/deadline June 16/simplified)
JUNE 18
-- Katara Hospitality, owned by Qatar's sovereign wealthfund Qatar Investment Authority, to acquire joint control of aportfolio of hotels which are jointly controlled by Britishhotel operator InterContinental Hotels Group ( notifiedMay 8/deadline June 18/simplified)
-- Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to buy specialtydry-mix solutions producer Parexgroup from construction companyMateris (notified May 8/deadline June 18)
JUNE 19
-- U.S. car dealer Penske Automotive Group Inc andSpanish car dealer Ibericar to acquire joint control of Spanishcar dealer Ibericar Keldenich S.L. which is now solelycontrolled by Ibericar (notified May 15/deadline June19/simplified)
-- Japanese trading company Toyota Tsusho Corp toacquire German metals recycling company Scholz (notified May 12/deadline June 19/simplified)
-- German private equity firm Kallisto EinhundertsteVermoegensverwaltungs-GmbH, which is controlled by privateequity company Permira Holdings Ltd, to acquire German chemicalcompany CABB (notified May 12/deadline June 19/simplified)
JUNE 20
-- German airline Lufthansa and aviation trainingcompany CAE to set up a training joint venture (notified May13/deadline June 20/simplified)
-- Hutchison 3G UK to acquire Telefonica Ireland,a unit of Spanish telecoms provider Telefonica (notified Oct. 1/deadline extended to June 20)
JUNE 23
-- Private equity firm Blackstone to acquire solecontrol of Pinafore Holdings B.V., which owns industrialproducts maker Gates Worldwide Ltd (notified May14/deadline June 23/simplified)
JUNE 25
-- French utility EDF to acquire the domesticactivities of French energy services company Dalkia which is nowjointly controlled by EDF and French water and waste groupVeolia (notified May 16/deadline June 25)
-- British mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse and British electrical retailer Dixons Retail to merge(notified May 16/deadline Jun2 25)
-- Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Peruvianengineering company Grana y Montero and Spanish gas networkoperator Enagas to acquire joint control of Peruvian gaspipeline operator Tecgas Inc which is now solely controlled byCPPIB (notified May 16/deadline June 25/simplified)
JUNE 26
-- Chinese electronics company Lenovo Group Ltd tobuy Google's Motorola Mobility handset division(notified May 19/deadline June 26/simplified)
JUNE 27
-- Qatar Investment Authority to acquire a stake in anAmerican Express business travel joint venture (notifiedMay 20/deadline June 27)
JUNE 30
-- German healthcare group Fresenius SE to form ajoint venture with Russian oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Sistema (notified May 21/deadline June 30/simplified)
JULY 1
-- Swedish steelmaker SSAB to buy Finnish peerRautaruukki Corp (notified May 22/deadline July 1)
JULY 8
-- Swiss cement maker Holcim to buy some ofMexican peer Cemex's assets in Europe . (notified Sept. 3/deadline extended for the third time to July 8from May 2)
SEPT 5
-- Mexican cement producer Cemex to acquireSwiss peer Holcim's Spanish cement business (notifiedFeb. 28/deadline extended to April 23 from April 4 after Cemexsubmitted concessions/in-depth investigation announced April23/new deadline Sept. 5)
SEPT 18
-- U.S. chemical maker Huntsman Corp to acquire U.S.peer Rockwood Holdings's titanium dioxide pigmentsbusiness (notified Jan. 29/deadline extended to Sept. 18 fromAug. 20/commitments submitted on March 28)
OCT 17
-- U.S. cable company Liberty Global to acquireDutch peer Ziggo (notified March 14/deadline extendedto Oct. 17 from Sept. 19 after Liberty Global asked for moretime)
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. (Editing by Foo Yun Chee)
