0 an official instruction:
1 an official instruction or order:
A federal directive forbids fund-raising in government offices.
2 an official order or instruction:
a directive to do sth Under a directive to cut utility costs, one office building has installed skylights in conference rooms to reduce the need for artificial light.
The new e-commerce directive should lay out better guidelines about when exactly an online contract is formed.
In this context, the need for more harmonization in the explanation and application of the directives at a national level was stressed.
Only level 1 utterances which contain descriptions (informatives, directives with description, some corrections and utterances related to previous turns) can be considered for further coding.
The main categories (informative utterances, simple directives and directives with description) reached 40% of the total number of the utterances produced by the speakers.
When both dimensions are considered simultaneously, it appears that there are several types of directive utterances.
Instead, directives would rely on essential requirements2 and the use of voluntary standards.
But by hypothesis, its directives have practical authority over nonexperts only when the nonexperts do better following the directives as they apply.
She demonstrates that almost 60 per cent of the directives are transposed late.
It also called for each state to have their own law related to advance directives.