In this task, you are provided with an article of the legal acts. Your task is to classify it into three categories (Regulation, Decision and Directive) based on its content: 1) Regulation is a binding legislative act that must be applied in its entirety on a set date across all the member states (European Union countries). 2) Decision is binding on those to whom it is addressed (e.g. an European Union country or an individual company) and is directly applicable. 3) Directive is a legislative act that sets out a goal that all  must achieve. However, it is up to the individual countries to devise their own laws on how to reach these goals.
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Question: Regulation (EEC) No 1523/71 is hereby amended as follows:    1. Article 1 (1) shall read:'1. During the second month following that of the time limit fixed for declaring the areas sown for a marketing year, the area of flax grown mainly for fibre, and the area of hemp, these being the areas declared as sown.'2. In Article 1 (2) and (3), the expressions 'the area of flax grown mainly for seed' and 'the areas of flax grown mainly for seed' shall respectively be deleted.3. Article 2 (b) is deleted. Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 771/74 is hereby amended to read as follows:'Article 2For the purposes of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 619/71, 'flax grown mainly for fibre' means flax grown from the varieties of seed specified in the Annex hereto.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Answer: Regulation


Question: The Additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Malta and the declaration annexed to the Final Act are hereby approved on behalf of the Community.The texts of the Protocol and of the Final Act are annexed to this Regulation. The President of the Council shall, as far as the Community is concerned, give the notification provided for in Article 12 of the Additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Malta [2]. This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Answer: Regulation


Question: Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 17/66/Euratom of 29 November 1966 relating to the exemption of small quantities of ores, source materials and special fissile materials from the rules of the chapter on supplies, published in the Official Journal of the European Communities on 28 December 1966, page 4057/66, is hereby amended to read as follows:'With regard to special fissile materials, transfers within, imports into and exports from the Community shall be exempt from the provisions of Chapter VI of the Treaty provided that the quantities involved, referred to the elemental form, do not exceed 200 grammes of uranium-235, uranium-233 or plutonium in any one transaction up to an annual limit of 1 000 grammes of any of the substances per user. In the case of imports and exports this shall apply subject to the provisions of agreements for cooperation concluded by the Community with third countries.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Answer:
Regulation