Brussels, 07/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has approved the planed takeover of the UK-based BOC by the German company Linde. Both companies are active in industrial and speciality gases. The initial market investigation found that the proposed acquisition could have created significant competition problems by removing an important competitor of Linde on a number of gas markets. These competition concerns are removed by the remedy package offered by the parties which...