Brussels, 24/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has authorised the American company Tech Data Corp to acquire the British group Azlan Group plc. Tech Data distributes material and micro-computer related hardware and software products to value added resellers and retailers, throughout the USA, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. It offers after-sales support, training and financial services to its customers. Azlan, on the other hand, is a UK-based pan-European supplier of networking solutions. Its business consists of the distribution of networking products and related services. The Commission investigated the market for distribution of IT products and more particularly the indirect distribution of data networking products, which is where the companies have overlapping activities. But the operation, it concludes, does not raise any serious competition concerns on these product markets regardless of whether the market is national or European.