KIEV, Dec. 12 - Germany's Martin Bauer Group has been given permission to acquire Zhytomyr-based Liktravy, the Antimonopoly Committee reported last week.

The committee said that MB Beteiligungs Gmbh, part of Martin Bauer Group, was permitted to buy over 50% of the shares in the Ukrainian company.

In early March, Zhytomyr regional administration reported that Martin Bauer Group had become a strategic investor in Liktravy and invested UAH 100 million in the construction of a phyto-pharmaceutical workshop at the company.