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Directive 2004/25/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on takeover bids

Competition: Merger control procedures

Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation)

Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses

Recent closure cases are documented in the database of restructuring events

In case of a closure resulting in signficant numbers of redundancies, it might also be useful to have a look at the list of company restructuring cases in which interventions of the European Globalisation Fund have been made