Brussels, 02/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - In addition to the Unilever operation (see above), the European Commission has approved the following operations, which, it says, raise no substantial problems of competition:
the purchase of the activities of the German company Kommerling in the plastics sector by another German firm, HT Troplast, subsidiary of RAG. The activities only overlap in PVC windowframes materials, but there is strong competitive pressure on the markets concerned.;
purchase of European Bakery Supply Business (Anglo-Dutch group Unilever) by the Dutch firm CSM in the convenience bakery supplies. Market shares being small (less than 15%), the operation raises no problems;
the acquisition by France's Carrefour (convenience goods) of sole control of the Belgian retailer GB (mainly food retailing). Due to the lack of an addition of market shares, the operation will no effect on the pre-existing competition situation;
the acquisition of the American firm Mallinckrodt (healthcare) by Tyco International. The only impediment to the operation resided in the accumulation of activities in the medical equipment sector but the global market share is not however large enough to pose a problem of competition.
EUROPE will return to these operations if need be.