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: Article 3 (1) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1579/7A is replaced by the following:‘(a) In the case referred to in the preceding subparagraph, and except in respect of products falling within subheading 23.07 B specified in Annex A of Regulation No 120/67/EEC any adjustment of the levy shall subject to the operation of the second subparagraph of Article 15 (3) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC, be made in relation to the threshold price for the basic product or products used for the purpose of calculating the variable component of the levy operative on the day of importation. Such adjustment shall be made by increasing or reducing the levy which was fixed in advance by the difference between the threshold price for 100 kg of the basic product operative for the month in which the application is made and that operative for the month of importation, that difference being multiplied by the coefficient shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68.(b) With regard to the products referred to in Article 2, the levy fixed in advance shall moreover be adjusted if the production refunds fixed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1955/75 are altered between the day on which the licence is applied for and the day of importation. Such adjustment shall be made by increasing or decreasing the amount of levy fixed in advance by reference to the difference resulting from such alteration, that difference being multiplied by the coefficient shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 against the products in question.’ 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: Member States shall communicate to the Commission, for each species or group of varieties for which an aid has been fixed and for each type of hybrid maize for sowing for which a reference price has been fixed, the information listed in the Annex by the dates specified therein.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: The French Republic is hereby authorized to grant to the coal industry the following aids for 1978:    (a) an amount not exceeding FF 2 229 900 000 to cover losses on mining;(b) an amount not exceeding FF 200 000 000 to cover the financial losses sustained by the central administration of Charbonnages de France.The aids referred to in (a) and (b) above shall not exceed actual losses. The French Government shall notify the Commission by 31 March 1979 of details of the aids granted pursuant to this Decision and in particular of the amounts paid and the manner in which they are apportioned. This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.

SOLUTION:
Decision