The EU commission, which is Europe's antitrust regulator, ruled in March that the assets Bayer agreed to shed are sufficient to approve the Monsanto deal, but it had yet to give a final nod on whether BASF would sufficiently stoke competition as new owner.

Bayer is close to wrapping up the Monsanto deal following months of delays. Earlier on Tuesday it won conditional U.S. antitrust approval for the $62.5 billion (47.2 billion pounds) transaction.

(Reporting by Ludwig Burger; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Stocks treated in this article : Monsanto, Bayer, BASF