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.

Annexes II and IX of Council Directive No 71/320/EEC of 26 July 1971 are modified according to the Annex to the present Directive. 1. With effect from 1 October 1974 no Member State shall on grounds relating to the braking devices: (1)OJ No L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1. (2)OJ No L 73, 27.3.1972, pp. 115 and 157. (3)OJ No L 202, 6.9.1971, p. 37. (4)OJ No L 73, 27.3.1972, pp. 118, 119 and 158. - refuse EEC type approval, the delivery of the document referred to in Article 10 (1), last subsection, of Council Directive No 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970, or the national type approval of a type of motor vehicle;- nor prohibit the entry into service of the vehicles ; if the braking devices of this type of vehicle or of these vehicles comply with the provisions of Council Directive No 71/320/EEC of 26 July 1971, as last amended by this Directive.2. From 1 January 1975 onwards a Member State: - shall no longer deliver the document envisaged in Article 10 (1), last subsection, of Council Directive No 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970, for a type of vehicle of which the braking devices do not comply with the provision of Council Directive No 71/320/EEC of 26 July 1971, as last amended by this Directive;- may refuse the national type approval of a type of vehicle of which the braking devices do not comply with the provisions of Council Directive No 71/320/EEC of 26 July 1971, as last amended by this Directive.3. With effect from 1 October 1975 a Member State may prohibit the entry into service of vehicles of which the braking devices do not comply with the provisions of Council Directive No 71/320/EEC of 26 July 1971, as last amended by this Directive.4. The Member States shall adopt and publish the provision necessary in order to comply with this Directive before 1 June 1974 and shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof. This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Directive