The phrase "a condition for approving" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing specific requirements or criteria that must be met in order to grant approval for something.
Example: "The committee outlined a condition for approving the project, which included a detailed budget proposal."
Alternatives: "a prerequisite for approval" or "a requirement for endorsement".
But more recently, regulators have made competition a condition for approving the biggest mergers.
Legislators have pushed for such changes as a condition for approving military aid.
Medicare required that the database be created as a condition for approving payments for expanded defibrillator use.
Medicare officials made the registry a condition for approving payments for defibrillators for a new class of heart patients, despite equivocal evidence that they needed the device.
Last year, European regulators ordered Universal to sell about a third of EMI's recorded assets as a condition for approving the transaction.
Past increases have been routine, but Republicans, citing the giant US deficit, have demanded huge cuts as a condition for approving the increase.
House Republicans — who forced a shutdown of the federal government, which also started on Tuesday, by demanding that the health care law be defunded or delayed as a condition for their approving financing for the government in the new fiscal year — were quick to jump on the snags as validation of their opposition to the program.
The first directly relevant precedent was in 1990, when the first Bush administration claimed that Congress could not, as a condition of approving funds for a certain diplomatic delegation, require it to include a representative from a Congressional panel.
Republicans say the 2008 law must be changed as a condition of approving any funding for the crisis.
The German economic ministry, according to the paper Welt am Sonntag, has drawn up a "sobering" report on what it sees as Greece's failure to make implementing reforms its priority, and has called for greater co-operation with Brussels as a pre-condition for approving the bailout.
On Thursday, officials in Finland are supposed to make a statement outlining their conditions for approving the deal, which will probably set the pattern for other countries seeking guarantees from Greece that their loans will be paid back.
