TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Paragraph 1 of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1703/72 is replaced by the following text:'The price at which the intervention agency hands over goods in implementation of the 1971 Food-Aid Convention shall be, as appropriate, the single intervention price or the reference price for the month in which the goods are removed from intervention.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.It shall apply with effect from 1 August 1977.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: of Regulation (EEC) No 776/73 is hereby amended to read as follows:'Each Member State shall communicate to the Commission at the latest by 31 March of each year the following data:    1. for each recognized production region and each variety:      (a) for the harvest of the current calendar year and each succeeding harvest:        - the quantities of hops for which contracts have been concluded in advance,- the average prices per 50 kilograms;(b) for all deliveries effected from the harvest of the previous calendar year, distinguishing between contracts concluded in advance and contracts not so concluded:        - the quantities of hops delivered,- the average prices per 50 kilograms;(c) the marketing stage at which the average prices were obtained;2. for all deliveries effected from the previous calendar year:      (a) the average costs of the initial preparation of the hops (first drying and first packing) borne by producers on the farm per 50 kilograms;(b) the average costs of the second preparation of the hops (sulphuring, final drying, final baling, marking) per 50 kilograms;(c) the average costs of storing hop cones borne on behalf of producers by producer groups, whether or not they have qualified for recognition under Article 7 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71, and by merchants, per 50 kilograms;(d) the average marketing costs borne by producer groups, per 50 kilograms;3. where the preparation of hops is carried out as a single operation, the Member State concerned may communicate one figure for the costs referred to in paragraph 2 (a) and (b);4. for the period 1 September to 31 August, distinguishing between intra-Community trade and trade with non-member countries, the quantities and the free-at-frontier prices (per 100 kilograms) of    (a) imports of:      - 12.06 hop cones and lupulin,- 13.03 A VI hop extract;(b) exports of:      - 12.06 hop cones and lupulin,- 13.03 A VI hop extract.'  (1)OJ No L 175, 4.8.1971, p. 1. (2)OJ No L 73, 27.3.1972, p. 14. (3)OJ No L 74, 22.3.1973, p. 14. There is hereby added to the first sentence of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 776/73 the following:'distinguishing between areas in their first production year, those in their second production year and other areas'. 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.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: The apparatus described as 'Revco freezer, type ULT 1785' is not considered to be a scientific apparatus. This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

SOLUTION:
Decision