The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and DuPont Co (Dupont) $60 billion merger, is expected to be the fastest in the next month to receive formal opposition from EU regulators.

Regulators have listed some related antitrust issues, the European Commission headquarters in Brussels in December so prepared to offer advice to the case that the transaction will be how to reduce crop protection, seed and some petrochemical products in the field of competition.

This merger project is currently one of the 3 ongoing large-scale mergers and acquisitions the global agricultural industry, the other 2 projects is Monsanto and Bayer acquired Chinese chemical acquisition of Syngenta, this EU competition commissioner Margre the Vestager said, related to mergers and acquisitions will reshape the agricultural chemical industry, and warned that these transactions may make the industry “quite concentrated”.