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 following Article 5a shall be inserted in Regulation (EEC) No 1105/68:'Article 5a1. Where a dairy uses solely for feeding its own animals the skimmed milk which it produces, this shall be regarded as a case coming within Article 2 (1) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 986/68.2. Such a dairy may receive aid:      (a) only for those quantities of skimmed milk which the dairy has declared in writing to the competent agency as being used for feeding its own animals, and(b) only if it keeps the monthly record referred to in Article 5.3. However, if, in the case described in paragraph 1, only buttermilk is used, the dairy shall receive, for each kilogramme of butter produced and sold, the aid payable for 2.2 kilogrammes of skimmed milk. The monthly record referred to in Article 5 (1) shall also contain details of the quantities of butter produced and sold, supported in particular by delivery vouchers and invoices.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.Where a dairy concerned so requests, it shall apply with effect from 1 April 1975.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: The second paragraph of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 18/69 is hereby repealed. This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 October 1969.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: The Member States shall require that sampling for the official control of feedingstuffs, as regards the determination of constituents, additives and undesirable substances and products, with the exception of residues of pesticides and micro-organisms, be carried out in accordance with the methods described in the Annex to this Directive. The Member States shall, not later than 1 January 1977, bring into force the laws, regulations or administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith notify the Commission thereof. This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

SOLUTION:
Directive