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 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70 is replaced by the following text:'Article 41. A system of aid shall be introduced for flax grown mainly for fibre and for hemp grown in the Community.Such aid, the amount of which shall be uniform throughout the Community for each of these products, shall be fixed each year before 1 August for the marketing year beginning in the following calendar year.2. The amount of aid shall be so fixed per hectare of area sown and harvested as to ensure an even balance between the volume of production required in the Community and the amount that can be marketed. To that end the Commission shall submit each year to the Council a report enabling it to assess these factors and their foreseeable development.When the amount of aid is being fixed account shall also be taken:      - with regard to flax and hemp:of the price of flax and hemp fibres on the world market and the price of other competing natural products,- with regard to flax:of the guide price for linseed,- with regard to hemp:of the price of hemp seed on the world market.3. The amount of aid shall be fixed in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty.4. The Council acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission shall adopt general rules for the application of this Article, in  (1)OJ No C 53, 8.3.1976, p. 24. (2)OJ No C 50, 4.3.1976, p. 19. (3)OJ No L 146, 4.7.1970, p. 1. (4)OJ No L 73, 27.3.1972, p. 14.particular as regards the verification of entitlement to the aid.5. Detail rules for the application of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.It shall apply as from the 1976/77 marketing year.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: Having regard to Decision No 178 amending the Decision on farms suitable for development, the existing provisions for the implementation of Directive 72/159/EEC in the Netherlands continue to satisfy the conditions for financial contribution by the Community to common measures within the meaning of Article 15 of Directive 72/159/EEC. This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

SOLUTION: Decision

PROBLEM: Having regard to Decision No 226 of the Board of the Foundation administering the Agricultural Development and Reorganization Fund on the system of aid for mutual assistance associations between farms, the existing provisions for the implementation of Directive 72/159/EEC in the Netherlands continue to satisfy the conditions for financial contribution by the Community to common measures within the meaning of Article 15 of the said Directive. This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

SOLUTION:
Decision