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 text of Article 2, first indent, of Directive 82/937/EEC is hereby replaced by the following:'- Article 1, items 5, 6 (b) and 7, no later than 1 July 1983,'. This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

SOLUTION: Directive

PROBLEM: Liquid polyisobutylene having a number average molecular weight of approximately 440 (the degree of polymerization being approximately eight) shall be classified under the following subheading of the Common Customs Tariff:'39.02 Polymerization and copolymerization products (for example, polyethylene, polytetrahaloethylenes, polyisobutylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloroacetate and other polyvinyl derivatives, polyacrylic and polymethacrylic derivatives, coumarone-indene resins):C. Other:V. Polyisobutylene.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the 21st day following that of 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 apparatus described as 'NAC film motion analyzer, model 160 B' is not considered to be a scientific apparatus. This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

SOLUTION:
Decision