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: Consider Input: Directive 76/135/EEC is hereby amended as follows: 1. In Article 5, the date '1 January 1978' shall be replaced by '1 January 1980'.2. Article 7 shall be replaced by the following:'Article 7This Directive shall be valid until the effective entry into force of the provisions referred to in Article 5.' This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Output: Directive

Input: Consider Input: The first subparagraph of Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73 is hereby amended to read as follows:'2. Such security shall be given, at the option of the tenderer, in cash or in the form of a guarantee from an establishment which meets criteria laid down by the Member State to which the security is given.' Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 3389/73 is hereby amended to read as follows:'1. The time limit of the removal of the tobacco shall be fixed for each tender.2. Save in cases of force majeure, if the successful tenderer has not taken over the tobacco within the time limit laid down: (a) during the first 60 days following this time limit, the successful tenderer shall reimburse the intervention agency for the additional costs arising from the storage of the products in question beyond the time limit referred to in paragraph 1, together with the financing costs. The amount to be paid shall be calculated in accordance with Article 4 (1) (g) and (h) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1697/71 of 26 July 1971 on the financing of intervention expenditure in respect of raw tobacco (1);(b) during the second 60 days following the time limit, the amounts referred to under (a) above shall be increased by 50 %;(c) at the end of the said second 60 day period, the said amounts shall be increased by 100 % and the Commission may decide, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70, that the sale is cancelled in respect of the quantities of tobacco which have not been removed by the successful tenderer. In this case the security shall be forfeited ; the amount of the security and the increases referred to under (a), (b) and (c) shall be credited to the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, in accordance with Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1697/71.(1)OJ No L 175, 4.8.1971, p. 8.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.(1)OJ No L 94, 28.4.1970, p. 1. (2)OJ No L 73, 27.3.1972, p. 14. (3)OJ No L 345, 15.12.1973, p. 47. (4)OJ No L 267, 30.9.1976, p. 35. (5)OJ No L 190, 14.7.1976, p. 1.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Output: Regulation

Input: Consider Input: The following point shall be added in the right-hand column in relation to entry No 1 of the Annex to Directive 76/769/EEC:'7. Until 31 December 1984 Member States may allow the use, in their territory, of re-usable thermoplastic tooling compounds containing not more than 50 % of PCT for the support, retention and stabilizing of parts in order to facilitate their precision machining and forming in the manufacture or maintenance of aircraft and marine gas turbines, nuclear reactors, semi-conductor devices, ship and aircraft frames, spars and stringers, high-precisionand optical lenses, tool gauges and trial models for injection-moulding tools in premises notified for this purpose to the competent authorities where records of the use of this substance are kept available for these authorities.' Member States shall, where appropriate, take the measures necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof. This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Output: Directive