Instructions: 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.
Input: The following two paragraphs are hereby added to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1350/72:'3. 'Area planted' means: (a) the area bounded by the line of the outer anchorage strings of the hop poles;(b) the areas at either end of the rows which are required for operating agricultural machinery, provided that neither area is more than five metres in length and that it does not form part of a highway.4. On application by a producer submitted within three months of the entry into force of this Regulation, the area registered for the purposes of the 1975 and 1976 harvests shall be increased: 1. by 5 % in the Member States in which the areas referred to in paragraph (3) (b) have not been included in the areas registered;2. by 10 % in the Member States in which the areas registered comprised only the areas bounded by the bases of the hop poles.' Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1350/72 is hereby amended to read as follows:'(a) were planted, as regards the areas referred to in Article 1 (3) (a), with a uniform density of at least: - 1 500 plants per hectare in the case of double staking,- 2 000 plants per hectare in the case of single staking'. 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.
Output:
Regulation