The UK's Office of Fair Trading approved the acquisition earlier this month.

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The UK will merge its Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with its Competition Commission, while Spain and the Netherlands plan to concentrate various competition, sector and consumer authorities into overarching national super-regulators.

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Some of the UK's leading building companies have been handed big fines by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for rigging bids for contracts.

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