根据 南非竞争委员会 announced its conditional approval of Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co.’s $130-billion merger.
该决定是在加拿大和墨西哥的全球反垄断机构以及美国司法部于 6 月 15 日最近获得有条件批准之后做出的。
为了解决 担忧 在竞争和玉米种子方面，陶氏将向其他第三方提供 81 种玉米杂交种和 7 种玉米自交系，以便在南非获得这些杂交种和自交系的许可。其次，陶氏必须在合并批准后的两年内在南非注册其 PowerCore 和 Enlist 生物技术特征。
“These conditions ensure that other smaller maize seed producers will be able to license and introduce new and different hybrids into South Africa and from this, access to the germplasm materials of Dow, which is situated in other regions such as Argentina. This will likely improve maize seed varieties available to South African farmers, other than from the current two main suppliers being DuPont and Monsanto,” the Commission said in a 陈述.
The Commission added: “On biotechnology traits, the conditions also ensure that other maize seed producers will have alternative traits to license other than those of Monsanto, which will likely improve choice as well as the prices available for traits in South Africa.”