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: The event within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68 in which the subsidy for cotton seeds becomes due and payable shall be considered to have occurred on 1 November following the beginning of each marketing year. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1975.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: 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.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 260/68 of 29 February 1968 shall be amended as follows:The words ‘household allowance’ shall be substituted for ‘head of household allowance’ in Article 3 (3) (a) first indent. This Regulation shall into enter force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.It shall be applicable from 1 July 1972.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION:
Regulation