Q: 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.
Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 619/71 is replaced by the following:'2. For flax grown mainly for fibre, half of the aid shall be granted to the grower and the other half to any natural or legal person who has concluded with the grower before a date to be determined a contract by which it obtains property in the straw flax.However, the whole of the aid shall be granted to the grower when:    (a) the said contract has not been concluded before the abovementioned date, or(b) the grower as defined in Article 3 (a) (a) processes the straw flax or has it processed on his own account, or(c) the grower meets the conditions set out in Article 3 (a) (b).' Article 3 (a), as set out below, shall be added to Regulation (EEC) No 619/71:'Article 3 (a)For the purpose of this Regulation, a 'grower' shall mean any natural or legal person who:    (a) produces flax or hemp on his own holding, or(b) has concluded, before sowing, a contract with an owner or farmer for the production of flax grown mainly for fibre, under which the owner or farmer  (1)OJ No L 146, 4.7.1970, p. 1. (2)OJ No L 73, 27.3.1972, p. 14. (3)OJ No L 72, 26.3.1971, p. 2.      - renounces all rights of ownership in the harvest;- receives in return a fixed sum per hectare, determined at the time of concluding the contract.' This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.It shall apply from the 1974/75 marketing year.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
A:
Regulation