The phrase "a policy directive" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an official instruction or guideline that outlines a specific policy or course of action.
Example: "The organization issued a policy directive to ensure compliance with new regulations."
Alternatives: "a policy guideline" or "an official directive".
It is not a policy directive.
This is apparently a policy directive from the courts service, the government department that administers the courts.
The committee would now vote a policy "directive," but leave the timing and magnitude of rate-setting to the chairman.
Yet the misinterpretation of the Helms amendment was formalized in a policy directive in 2008 by the United States Agency for International Development and continues to be enforced by other aid programs as well.
The bumiputera equity requirement was part of a policy directive introduced in 1971 by Mr Najib's father, Abdul Razak, Malaysia's second prime minister, and was intended to reduce the economic and social backwardness of the Malay majority.
France is restricting visas for workers from outside the European Union in the face of rising unemployment, according to a policy directive by President Nicolas Sarkozy that was released Tuesday.
A new policy directive, spelled out in a 2 April letter to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is expected to resolve months of confusion about how to handle manuscripts from those countries.
A23 Shift in Rules of Interrogation The Pentagon has approved a new policy directive governing interrogations by the military, a decision that in turn will allow the Army to issue new field regulations intended to tighten controls over interrogations, defense officials said.
When the UN high commissioner for refugees finally implemented a comprehensive policy directive on urban refugees in 2014 (pdf), it marked the end of a long battle.
The authorities believe that Mr. Franklin gave a draft policy directive on Iran to officials from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac, who then provided the information to Israeli intelligence.
One area that Congress declined to include in the new protections — the intelligence and national security agencies — was included by President Obama in a new policy directive issued in October.
