21/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has just decided to hand over to the Czech authorities management of the Sapard system of aid for environmentally friendly production methods. The Czech Republic can now start to implement this specific part of the programme, which allocates a sum of 3,747,966 euros, or 2.3% of all Sapard funds available to this country in the programming period 2000 - 2006.