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 following Article 5a shall be inserted in Regulation (EEC) No 1105/68:'Article 5a1. Where a dairy uses solely for feeding its own animals the skimmed milk which it produces, this shall be regarded as a case coming within Article 2 (1) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 986/68.2. Such a dairy may receive aid: (a) only for those quantities of skimmed milk which the dairy has declared in writing to the competent agency as being used for feeding its own animals, and(b) only if it keeps the monthly record referred to in Article 5.3. However, if, in the case described in paragraph 1, only buttermilk is used, the dairy shall receive, for each kilogramme of butter produced and sold, the aid payable for 2.2 kilogrammes of skimmed milk. The monthly record referred to in Article 5 (1) shall also contain details of the quantities of butter produced and sold, supported in particular by delivery vouchers and invoices.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.Where a dairy concerned so requests, it shall apply with effect from 1 April 1975.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: The following three joint informatics studies are hereby adopted: (a) study on data security and confidentiality;(b) study on programming techniques;(c) study on the evaluation and implementation of informatic systems.These studies are defined in section II of the Annex. The duration of the studies referred to in Article 1 shall be three years. The appropriations necessary for carrying them out, which represent 50 % of their cost, shall be entered in the budget of the European Communities. They shall amount to 1 245 000 units of account. 50 % of the cost of implementing the studies shall be borne by the institutes concerned. The Commission shall be responsible for carrying out the studies. It shall be assisted by the Advisory Committee on Joint Data Processing Projects.The Commission shall submit a report to the Council annually.

SOLUTION: Decision

PROBLEM: 1. The minimum price referred to in Article 5 (1) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC shall, for each 0.10 % of sucrose content, be: (a) increased by not less than: - 0.9 % for contents exceeding 16 % but not exceeding 18 %,- 0.7 % for contents exceeding 18 % but not exceeding 19 %,- 0.5 % for contents exceeding 19 % but not exceeding 20 %;(b) reduced by not more than: - 0.9 % for contents falling below 16 % but not below 15.5 %, (1)OJ No 308, 18.12.1967, p. 1. (2)OJ No L 314, 15.12.1969, p. 6.- 1 % for contents falling below 15.5 % but not below 14.5 %.The price for beet with a sucrose content in excess of 20 % shall not be less than the minimum price adjusted for beet with a 20 % sucrose content.2. In Italy the percentage increases and reductions specified in paragraph 1 (a) and (b) shall be multiplied by a coefficient of 0.75. 1. Contracts, and agreements within the trade within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC, may provide for larger increases and smaller reductions than those specified in Article 1. Contracts, and such agreements within the trade, may provide for further increases for sucrose contents above 20 % and for further reductions for sucrose contents below 14.5 %.2. The contracts and agreements referred to in paragraph 1 may, in the case of beet with a sucrose content below 14.5 %, define beet suitable for processing into sugar, if such contracts and agreements provide for further reductions for sucrose contents below 14.5 % but above the minimum sucrose content specified in that definition.3. If the definition referred to in paragraph 2 is not included in the contracts and agreements, the Member State concerned may lay down that definition. In that case it shall, at the same time, fix the further reductions referred to in that paragraph. This Regulation shall apply from the 1970/71 marketing year.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

SOLUTION:
Regulation