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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The directives listed in the Annex are hereby amended in accordance with the provisions set out therein. 1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 31 December 1987. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the texts of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive. This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

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Directive


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The Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters amending Annex A to Protocol 1 to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Austria is hereby approved on behalf of the Community.The text of the Agreement is annexed to this Regulation. The President of the Council is hereby authorized to designate the person empowered to sign the Agreement for the purpose of binding the Community. 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.

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Regulation


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1. White sugar of the standard quality shall have the following characteristics:    (a) sound, fair and marketable quality, dry, in homogeneous granulated crystals, free-flowing,(b) minimum polarization 99 77º,(c) maximum moisture content 0 706 %,(d) maximum invert sugar content : 0 704 %,(e) the number of points determined in accordance with paragraph 2 shall not exceed a total of 22, nor:      - 15 for the ash content,- 9 for the colour type, determined according to the method of the Brunswick Institute of Agricultural Technology, hereinafter called the 'Brunswick method',- 6 for the colouring of the solution, determined according to the method of the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis, hereinafter called the 'ICUMSA method'.2. One point shall correspond to:    (a) 0 70018 % of ash content determined according to the ICUMSA method at 28º Brix,(b) 0 75 units of colour type determined according to the Brunswick method,(c) 7 75 units of colouring of the solution determined according to the ICUMSA method.3. The methods for determining the factors referred to in paragraph 1 shall be the same as those used for the determination of those factors within the framework of the intervention measures. This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.it shall apply from 1 July 1972.1 OJ No 308, 18.12.1967, p 1.  2 OJ No L 75, 28.3.1972, p. 4.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

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Regulation