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: For the purpose of applying the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation, Decisions 1/75 and 2/75 of the Joint Committee annexed hereto shall apply within the Community. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1976.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: 1. Preventive action against risks of accident and occupational risks to the safety and health of workers in all mineral-extracting industries except simple excavation, excluding the protection of the health of workers against the dangers arising from ionizing radiations which is subject to special regulations pursuant to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community shall be the responsibility of the Mines Safety and Health Commission within the terms of reference laid down by Decision of 11 March 1965 of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the special Council of Ministers.2. Mineral-extracting industries shall be taken to mean the activities of prospecting and of extraction in the strict sense of the word as well as of preparation of extracted materials for sale (crushing, screening, washing), but not the processing of such extracted materials.3. Simple excavation shall be taken to mean work whose purpose is not the extraction of materials for use.  (1)OJ No C 40, 8.4.1974, p. 64. (2)OJ No 28, 31.8.1957, p. 487/57. (3)OJ No 46, 22.3.1965, p. 698/65. (4)OJ No C 13, 12.2.1974, p. 1. 1. This Decision shall enter into force on the fifth day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.2. It shall apply:    - to the underground activities of the mineral-extracting industries : as from the day laid down in paragraph 1;- to the other activities of the mineral-extracting industries : as from 1 January 1976.

SOLUTION: Decision

PROBLEM: The following Article 7a is hereby inserted in Directive 82/400/EEC:'Article 7aRegulation (EEC) No 129/78 and Articles 8 and 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 shall apply mutatis mutandis.' This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

SOLUTION:
Directive