BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday that it had approved EasyJet, IAG and Air France-KLM as the takers of remedies required for Lufthansa's planned purchase of a minority stake in Italy's ITA Airways.

Lufthansa won EU antitrust approval in July to buy 41% of state-owned ITA, the successor airline to bankrupt Alitalia, for 325 million euros ($343.6 million), in a deal designed to boost its presence in the lucrative southern European market.

However, Lufthansa and the Italian ministry of economy and finance had to make commitments to allow competitors to take up more short- and long-haul flights from Italy and transfer some take-off and landing slots at Milan's Linate Airport.

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(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop)