1.   Any deal must be approved by British competition regulators.

2.   But he said General Electric might have to make some promises to the European competition regulator.

3.   Friday, a British government competition regulator said that it approved the sale of Yell.

4.   German and European competition regulators pressed Deutsche Telekom to sell its cable systems because they wanted competition in local phone and Internet services.

5.   He replaced Van Miert as the competition regulator last year, after accusations of corruption led to a complete overhaul of all the top posts.

6.   However, there is less common ground between the two competition regulators this time, the official said.

7.   Like Bass, the Beck acquisition is subject to approval by competition regulators in Europe and the United States.

8.   That view was echoed, at least implicitly, by German competition regulators.

9.   The European competition regulator submitted questions and the company has replied, said a commission spokeswoman, Amelia Torres.

10.   The reference was made by John Bridgeman, who heads the Office of Fair Trading, a U.K. competition regulator.