The phrase "a draft decree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a preliminary version of an official order or decision that is yet to be finalized.
Example: "The committee reviewed a draft decree regarding the new environmental regulations before submitting it for approval."
Alternatives: "a preliminary decree" or "a proposed decree".
Additionally, a draft decree from the government has proposed new limitations on the way indigenous reserves are created.
The finance ministry has been circulating a draft decree that would allow the government to impose price controls on a wide range of essential goods.
And campaigners say a draft decree apparently drawn up by the justice ministry and published by local media threatens both new and existing indigenous reserves.
Updated at 5.51pm BST 5.41pm BST Italy plans to suspend October's sales tax rise until January, according to a draft decree, Reuters is reporting.
This follows the purchase by Mizuho of a 15% stake in Vietcombank, for $567m, in September 2011.To encourage more such deals the SBV has submitted a draft decree to the government that would allow foreign investors to take up to 30% of equity in banks in certain circumstances, up from the present 20%.
In the night sitting of Oct. 27 he proposed, at the session of the Congress of the Soviets, a draft decree about peace which was passed unanimously and another about the land, which was passed with one dissentient and eight abstentions.
Last November, as Monday's letter publicly disclosed, federal officials sent the sheriff a draft consent decree, an agreed-upon but judicially mandated blueprint for comprehensive reform.
The two initiatives include a bill that critics say would dismantle environmental licensing laws and a draft government decree campaigners say threatens existing and future indigenous territories.
Teachers are seeking the revocation of a draft presidential decree that foresees a two-hour increase to their weekly working hours.
Specifically it focuses on whether a jurisdiction--Miami-Dade County--should amend a draft consent decree to fix and upgrade the county's sewerage system by including investments in adaptation to climate change.
The Federal Trade Commission said in a draft consent decree yesterday that El Paso Energy would sell pipelines and other assets to win antitrust clearance for its proposed $840 million acquisition of the PG&E Corporation's gas business in Texas.
