Brussels, 09/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission authorised, under certain conditions, the acquisition of the Swedish company AGA AB by the German company Linde AG, in the industrial gas sector. This operation constitutes a new large-scale consolidation in this sector after the acquisition of certain parts of BOC group by Air Liquide. The operation as it such was initially notified to the Commission, would have lead to the creation of dominant positions for Linde in the bottled...