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BRUSSELS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The following are mergers underreview by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EUmerger process:

APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS

-- Private equity firm Pai Partners to acquire Frenchnursing home operator DVD Participations (approved Aug. 5)

-- U.S. travel services company Carlson to acquire sole control of U.S. peer CWT (approvedAug. 5)

-- German engineering company Siemens AG to buyRolls-Royce plc's aero-derivative gas turbinebusiness, and also to acquire joint control of turbine servicescompany Rolls Wood Group Ltd, which is a joint venture betweenRolls-Royce plc and John Wood Group (approved Aug. 4)

-- Private equity firm Bridgepoint Advisers to buymanagement group Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners (approvedAug. 4)

-- Private equity firm TDR Capital to acquire motor fuelretailer Delek Europe (approved Aug. 1)

-- Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP to buy U.S. auto parts maker Visteon Corp's carinteriors businesses (approved Aug. 1)

NEW LISTINGS

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EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES

-- U.S. cable company Liberty Global to acquireDutch peer Ziggo (notified March 14/deadlinesuspended on Aug. 4 as European Commission awaits informationfrom Liberty Global)

FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE

AUG 7

-- Dutch construction company PTTGC Netherlands to buyisocyanates producer Vencorex (notified July 2/deadline Aug.7/simplified)

-- Finnish energy company Fortum Corp and Russian gascompany OAO Gazprom to acquire joint control ofEstonian gas producer AS Eesti Gaas and Estonian grid operatorAS Voerguteenus Valdus (notified July 2/deadline Aug. 7)

AUG 8

-- British private equity firm Intermediate Capital Groupplc and Danish investment company Kirkbi to take joint controlof detection equipment producer Minimax Viking Group (notifiedJuly 3/deadline Aug. 8/simplified)

AUG 18

-- Private equity firm Nordic Capital to acquire solecongrol of German medical devices wholesaler and medicalproducts producer GHD Verwaltung (notified July 10/deadline Aug.18)

-- Windfarm owner Parkwind, which is owned by theKorys/Colruyt Group and Flemish investment company PMV, andAspiravi Offshore, which is part of renewable energy producerAspiravi HOlding, and special purpose vehicle Summit RenewableEnergy Northwind, which is part of Sumitomo Corp, toacquire joint control of Northwind which is now jointly owned byParkwind and Aspiravi Offshore (notified July 10/deadline Aug.18/simplified)

-- Belgian car distributor D'Ieteren and Germancar parts and tyre maker Continental to set up a jointventure (notified July 10/deadline Aug. 18/simplified)

-- Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners toacquire French hospital services provider Vedici Groupe(notified July 10/deadline Aug. 18)

AUG 27

-- British engine maker Rolls-Royce plc toacquire full control of Rolls-Royce Power Systems which is ajoint venture between Rolls-Royce and German carmaker Daimler AG (notified July 22/deadline Aug. 27/simplified)

AUG 28

-- Chilean shipping company Compania SudAmericana de Vapores(CSAV) and German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd AG to merge (notified July 23/deadline Aug. 28)

AUG 29

-- Swiss trading house Mercuria to acquire JPMorgan's physical commodities trading business (notified July24/deadline Aug. 29)

-- U.S. software maker Oracle Corp to acquire U.S.peer Micros Systems (notified July 24/deadline Aug. 29)

SEPT 3

-- Russian oil company Rosneft to acquire the bulkof U.S. bank Morgan Stanley's physical oil tradingoperations (notified July 29/deadline Sept. 3/simplified)

SEPT 4

-- Dutch-based aluminium products makers Constellium and Japanese company UACJ Corp subsidiaryTri-Arrows Aluminium Inc to set up a U.S. joint venture(notified July 30/deadline Sept. 4/simplified)

Sept 12

-- Mexican cement producer Cemex to acquireSwiss peer Holcim's Spanish cement business (notifiedFeb. 28/deadline extended to Sept. 12 from Sept. 5)

SEPT 14

-- Private equity firm TDR Capital to buy fuel retailerDelek Europe B.V. (notified July 9/deadline Aug. 14/simplified)

SEPT 18

-- U.S. chemical maker Huntsman Corp to acquire U.S.peer Rockwood Holdings's titanium dioxide pigmentsbusiness (notified Jan. 29/deadline Sept. 18/Huntsman offeredthird set of commitments on July 28)

DEADLINE UNKNOWN

-- U.S. orthopedic products maker Zimmer Holdings Inc to buy rival Biomet Inc (notified June3/notification declared incomplete on June 11)

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)