30/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 30 September, the European Commission gave the go-ahead to the planned buy-up of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. of Japan by another Japanese company, Panasonic Corporation. The decision is conditional upon the sale of some battery manufacturing plants in markets where the Commission has detected competition problems, namely cylindrical lithium batteries, rechargeable button batteries and portable and rechargeable nickel alloy batteries. As long as these...