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"The integration of Monsanto into the Bayer Group can begin
following the completion on Thursday of the divestment by Bayer
to BASF <BASFn.DE> of certain Crop Science businesses with a
total sales volume of around 2.2 billion euros," it said in a
statement.
Bayer already closed the deal, becoming the sole owner of
Monsanto, on June 7 but had to hold off on the integration.
In the statement, Bayer reiterated that last week's jury verdict
for Monsanto to pay damages in a U.S. lawsuits over alleged
links between weed-killer Roundup and cancer was unwarranted.
The court ruling was "at odds with the weight of scientific
evidence, decades of real world experience and the conclusions
of regulators around the world", it said.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger)
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