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 Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries is hereby approved on behalf of the European Economic Community.The text of the Convention is attached to this Decision. The President of the Council shall deposit the instrument of approval with the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in accordance with Article 20 of the Conventionxa0(2).

SOLUTION: Decision

PROBLEM: Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1686/72 is replaced by the following:'2. The Member State shall pay the amount of aid to the grower within the two months following the lodging of the application and at the latest on 31 July of the year following the year of the harvest.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: The terms of business submitted by Ruhrkohle AG in its application of 30 June 1972 are hereby authorized. Authorization is granted subject to the following conditions: 1. In the first year following the entry into force of the said terms of business, Ruhrkohle AG must allow wholesalers contracting for the stipulated minimum amount of 6 000 metric tons a year of products for domestic and small consumers to take up to 15 % less than that amount.2. Ruhrkohle AG must allow all admitted wholesalers, without discrimination, to make use of their entitlement to buy direct for purposes of local disposals (Landabsatz).3. In the matter of supplying industrial consumers taking more than 30 metric tons of Ruhr products a year, Ruhrkohle AG may treat as special services only sales activities resulting in: - increased sales of Ruhr coal, or- a switch from other fuels to Ruhr coal, or- securing of existing sales for some time to come. This Decision is addressed to Ruhrkohle AG, Essen.

SOLUTION:
Decision