The phrase "a negative list" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a list that specifies items, actions, or conditions that are prohibited or undesirable.
Example: "The company provided a negative list of substances that are not allowed in the workplace."
Alternatives: "prohibited list" or "exclusion list".
One of the most contentious elements of TTIP and CETA is that both deals employ a "negative list" approach.
But Mr. Sarna said that gesture was "clearly inadequate" in light of past agreements, since many items remain on a "negative" list barring their import into Pakistan.
To little fanfare, Pakistan is now scrapping restrictions: adopting a "negative list" of specified banned goods, rather than, as previously, stipulating only what may be imported.
He had been enthusiastic, but he now fears officials have grown timid.Such concerns were hardly allayed when the authorities released a "negative list" of sectors in which foreigners cannot invest in the zone.
Last month Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, said a negative list may also be used in the soon-to-open Shanghai Free Trade Zone.Yet against those encouraging signs from on high, a darker reality has unfolded at ground level.
Rather than requiring firms to get explicit permission to operate, businesses in the zone are free to set up shop as long as their industry is not included on a "negative list".
Cuba cannot take the United States out of any negative list or give back a naval base in American territory.
In this way a less specific DRG system may act as a hidden negative list of technologies which de facto are not available for beneficiaries of publicly financed care since the monetary value assigned to certain groups does not cover the actual resource consumption associated with its use.
Version 4.0 can further integrate existing knowledge by adding a search bias towards sub-networks that contain (avoid) genes provided in a positive (negative) list.
It posts a protectionist "negative list" of industries where FDI is capped, including pharmaceuticals, health care and construction.
The clunky system of case-by-case approvals will be replaced by a simpler "negative list": if your industry is not on it, you do not need permission to invest.
