The phrase "a draft policy" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a preliminary version of a policy document that is subject to review and revision.
Example: "The committee will review a draft policy on workplace safety before finalizing it for implementation."
Alternatives: "a preliminary policy" or "a proposed policy".
The Chinese government has proposed the subsidy condition in a draft policy that it has circulated to Chinese and multinational automakers.
On Monday, the agency released a draft policy, expected to take effect next year, in which it would release clinical trial data whenever it approved a new drug.
Concerned about the potential for recruiting abuses, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or Nacac, put out a draft policy in 2011 imposing a similar ban abroad.
The next big issues will be the future of the environmental review process that has produced a draft policy environmentalists would like to scrap, and calls for extending the moratorium pending a federal review that could take two years.
A draft policy document on agriculture adopted by the leaders and promulgated the next year specifically rejected the idea, now considered a hallmark of China's rural reforms, of contracting out rural land to peasants to farm by themselves.
According to a draft policy paper seen by the Financial Times, the likes of WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, and Skype, owned by Microsoft, would have to abide by "security and confidentiality provisions".
However, the escalation process was not followed because of confusion over whether an existing operations standard policy or a new draft policy should take precedence.
Last October, I marched with health activists to the department of trade and industry in Pretoria to hand over recommendations on a new draft policy to fix South Africa's patent laws.
"The Ombudsman remains puzzled as to why EMA abandoned its original draft disclosure policy from 2012 and substituted it with a different draft policy, more in line with the pharmaceutical industry's wishes," her e-mail statement adds.
The agency consulted extensively with scientists, industry, and patient groups on how best to do this; it missed its January 2014 target for the release of a new draft policy.
The University of Toronto's sexual harassment policy, meanwhile, has remained unchanged since 1997, though the school released a new draft policy addressing sexual violence last week.
