The phrase "according to the existing rules" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referencing established guidelines, regulations, or standards that are currently in place.
Example: "According to the existing rules, all participants must submit their applications by the deadline."
Alternatives: "in line with the current regulations" or "as per the established guidelines".
According to the existing rules, every country in the EU must ratify a new treaty, either in its respective parliament or in a referendum, for that accord to be implemented anywhere in the community.
Addressing him in his own introductory remarks, Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, asserted: "What we must have — what our legal system demands — is a fair and unbiased umpire, one who calls the game according to the existing rules and does so competently and honestly every day".
In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to match an outside partnership offer to one of its leading litigators, when the litigator is not yet eligible for partnership according to the existing rules by which the firm elects partners.
Policy selection rules are produced based on the full factorial design results to help a practitioner in deciding the best scaling policy according to the existing system scenario.
It should probably stick to enforcing the existing rules instead.
However, Justine Greening, the International Development Secretary, emphasised that the UK would fight to retain the existing rules.
The resulting memo was provided to the Huffington Post and it concludes that a filibustering Senator "can be forced to sit on the [Senate] floor to keep us from voting on that legislation for a finite period of time according to existing rules but he/she can't be forced to keep talking for an indefinite period of time".
Again, if someone wants to obstruct a specific piece of legislation, he/she can be forced to sit on the floor to keep us from voting on that legislation for a finite period of time according to existing rules but he/she can't be forced to keep talking for an indefinite period of time.
This study was conducted according to existing rules for good clinical practice, and the protocol was approved by the local ethics committee.
But he said that the association considers it unfair for the E.B.A. to apply standards that are not yet required by bank regulations, adding, "In our opinion the stress tests should be conducted according to existing rules".
