Brussels, 10/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has authorised the American IT group Hewlett-Packard Company Ltd to acquire British IT services supplier Synstar Plc, which is mainly active in western European countries. This operation will allow HP to extend its IT services, but raises no concerns about competition, given the small increase of market share and the large number of viable competitors on the European markets, the Commission decided.