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 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.

SOLUTION: Regulation

PROBLEM: The Kingdom of Belgium shall not grant the aids which, as notified to the Commission by letter of 23 August 1972 from its Permanent Representative, it intended to grant towards the extension of an oil refinery at Antwerp and towards the setting up of a new refinery at Kallo. This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium.

SOLUTION: Decision

PROBLEM: The existing Italian provisions implementing Directives 72/159/EEC and 72/161/EEC, having regard to Articles 1 and 6 of the Law of the region of Emilia-Romagna of 11 October 1978, continue to satisfy the conditions for financial contribution by the Community to the common measures referred to in Article 15 of Directive 72/159/EEC and Article 8 of Directive 72/161/EEC. Article 2 of the Law of the region of Emilia-Romagna of 11 October 1978 satisfies the conditions for financial contribution by the Community to the common measures referred to in Article 13 of Directive 75/268/EEC. This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.

SOLUTION:
Decision

