EU mergers and takeovers (July 31)

BRUSSELS, July 31 (Reuters) - The following are proposed mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures under review by the European Commission, and a brief guide to the EU merger process:

APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS:

-- Capman and Litorina Kapital III LP, both Swedish private equity investment companies, buy Cederroth, a Swedish maker of personal, health and home care products (approved July 31)

- Spanish undertakings Zurich Vida and Zurich Generales, both active in the field of insurance, and Spanish savings bank Caixa Sabadell, buy Spanish life insurer Sabadell Vida and Spanish non-life insurer Sabadell Generales (approved July 31)

-- Austria's Siemens AG Oesterreich, controlled by German engineering group Siemens AG (SIEGn.DE), and Austria's IGO, controlled by Austrian engineering and construction company Ortner-Gruppe, acquire joint control of Siemens Elin Buildings and Infrastructure GmbH, an Austrian building installation services company (notified June 25/deadline July 31)

-- VION Food Group of the Netherlands buys control of the operative subsidiaries of Grampian Country Food Group of Britain (notified June 25/deadline July 31)

NEW LISTINGS:

-- Austrian building materials company Strabag (STRV.VI) buys German civil engineering raw material production company Kirchner (notified July 25/deadline Sept 1)

-- French retail banking Credit Mutuel buys German retail banking business Citibank Germany (notified July 28/deadline Sept 2/simplified)

EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES:

None

FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE:

JULY 31

-- Ineos Group Ltd, a British chemicals producer, acquires control of an ACN plant from chemicals group BASF BASF.DE (notified June 25/deadline July 31)

AUG 1

-- UK private equity company Cinven [CINV.UL] buys German truck and trailer components manufacturer JOST (notified June 26/deadline Aug. 1/simplified)

AUG 6

-- Goldman Sachs (GS.N), a U.S. investment group, purchases residential real estate group LEG of Germany and several Westphalia companies in the same business (notified July 1/deadline Aug. 6/simplified)

-- Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York private equity firm, purchases the DSM Special Products unit of Royal DSM (DSMN.AS), a Dutch chemicals group (notified June 17/deadline July 23/10 working days extension/new deadline Aug. 6)

-- Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) of the United States buys Northwest Airlines Corp NWA.N, another U.S. international airline (notified June 23/deadline July 29/suspended July 16/suspension ended July 24/deadline Aug. 6)

AUG 8

AUG 11

-- Thomas Cook France, a French unit of British international tourism company Thomas Cook Group (TCG.L), buys French tourism company Jet Tours (notified July 4/deadline Aug. 11/simplified)

-- Belgian fresh products company De Weide Blik NV, controlled by CVC Capital Partners, buys German rival Atlanta AG (notified July 4/deadline Aug. 11)

-- German financing solutions company Gefa, belonging to France's Societe Generale (SOGN.PA), buys German truck and trailer rental company Pema GmbH (notified July 4/deadline Aug. 11)

-- Dutch holding company Burani Designer Holding BRDH.L and certain funds belonging to British international private equity group 3i (III.L) buy Italian luxury leather goods company APB (notified July 4/deadline Aug. 11/simplified)

-- Irish fruits and vegetables company Total Produce (T7O.I) and Dutch fresh products company Haluco buy Dutch fresh products company TP Haluco and Total Produce buys sole control of Haluco UK (notified July 4/deadline Aug 11)

AUG 13

-- French energy company Total (TOTF.PA) and Algerian gas giant Sonatrach acquire joint control of two newly created Algerian petrochemical companies (notified July 8/deadline Aug. 13/simplified)

-- Jersey private equity firm Triton Managers II and Jersey private equity fund Altor Fund II buy Papyrus, a Swedish distributor of paper products (notified July 8/deadline Aug. 13/simplified)

AUG 14

-- U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co (GE.N) and GMT Communications Partners LLP, a British private equity fund company, buy Bigpoint GmbH, a German developer and host of online games (notified July 9/deadline Aug. 14/simplified)

-- U.S. private equity investment firm Bain Capital Investors buys Japanese audiovisual electronic products company D&M Holdings 6735.T (notified July 9/deadline Aug. 14/simplified)

-- Schlumberger (SLB.N), an oil services company from the Netherlands Antilles, and First Reserve, U.S. private investment funds, buy Saxon Energy Services (SES.TO), an oil production equipment company (notified July 9/deadline Aug. 14/simplified)

-- A group of companies including Cegedel Group CEGK.LU of Luxembourg, ELIA System Operator (ELI.BR) of Belgium, EnBW (EBKG.DE) of Germany, E.ON EONG.DE of Germany, EDF (EDF.PA) of France, RWE (RWEG.DE) of Germany and TenneT TSO of the Netherlands form a company to allocate power transmission in Europe (notified July 9/deadline Aug. 14)

-- Sun Capital Partners of the United States buys operational parts of SCS Upholstery called Share & Sons Ltd, a specialist in upholstered furniture retailing in Britain (notified July 9/deadline Aug 14/simplified)

AUG 18

-- Robert Bosch [ROBG.UL] of Germany and Samsung SDI Co. Ltd (006400.KS) of South Korea create a joint venture, SB LiMotive, to produce lithium ion batteries for hybrid electric and electric vehicles (notified July 10/deadline Aug 18)

AUG 20

-- Japanese electronic equipment maker Kenwood Corp 6765.T enters into a full merger with Japanese electronic products company Victor Co of Japan 6792.T (notified July 14/deadline Aug. 20)

-- Dutch packaging paper manufacturer Mondi Coating buys parts of Dutch release liners manufacturer Loparex Assets (notified July 14/deadline Aug 20)

AUG 21

-- US global investment banking Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and French private equity PAI buy German building materials company Xella (notified July 15/deadline Aug 21/simplified)

AUG 22

-- French insurance company BNPP Assurance, French commercial real estate management Sophia GE and private investor Mr. Jean-Philippe Chomette buy French hotel properties management CFH (notified July 16/deadline Aug 22/simplified)

-- Austrian power plant projects developper OPI, US financial services company Lehman LEH.N and Turkish consultancy services company Met Group buy Turkish gas power plant developper Borasco Elektrik (notified July 15/deadline Aug 22/simplified)

AUG 25

-- Air France (AIRF.PA) unit KLM buys Martinair Holland [MART.UL], another airline (notified July 17/deadline Aug. 25)

AUG 27

-- US human and animal healthcare products company Pfizer Inc. (PFE.N) buys certain businesses in the field of animal health (SP Assets) of US Schering-Plough Corporation (notified July 22/deadline Aug 27)

-- Turkish industrial and financial conglomerate Sabanci (SAHOL.IS) and Austrian electricity company Verbund (VERB.VI) buy Turkish electricity energy company Baskent BSKYO.IS (notified July 22/deadline Aug 27/simplified) -- Italian electricity company Edison (EDN.MI) and Greek crude oil and fuel supply company Hellenic Petroleum (HEPr.AT) acquire control of a newly created joint venture for the generation of electricity in Greece (notified July 22/deadline Aug 27)

-- German acquisition vehicle CSS buys German information technology products wholesaler Computerlinks CPXG.DE (notified July 22/deadline Aug 27/simplified)