The phrase "approval of existing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the endorsement or acceptance of something that is already in place or established.
Example: "The committee will meet next week to discuss the approval of existing policies and any necessary updates."
Alternatives: "endorsement of current" or "validation of existing".
Maintaining silence and extending tacit approval of existing policy are political acts.
The negotiations frozen this week can be reopened only with the unanimous approval of existing members: that gives Turkey's hardline opponents a veto.Bad reason for a breachThe row about Cyprus is pretty typical.
"We are asking the EPA to suspend approval of existing Bt crops and to undertake an environmental impact statement on Bt engineered crops," says Paul Clark, a spokesman for Greenpeace, which has teamed up with the Sierra Club, the National Family Farm Coalition, and organic farmers in the legal action.
However, there's often a genuine anger over well-known children's entertainments being adapted, expanded or altered in ways that don't meet the approval of the existing fans.
The second group 'policy agenda approvers' includes high and middle level politicians such as heads of state and ministers of health who gave approval for existing maternal fee exemption policies to be maintained and/or modified.
The developers of the Kimberley, which is in the historic district, are following terms of existing approvals from the commission regarding the building's design and height.
Since the study is a secondary analysis of existing data, approval from an ethical committee was not needed.
The Flinders University Social and Behavioural Research ethics committee exempted this study from requiring ethics approval, as it involved analysis of existing de-identified data.
Since this study involved a retrospective review of existing data, approval from the Institutional Review Board was obtained, but without specific informed consent from the patients.
The new rules also require companies to obtain shareholder approval before changing the exercise price of existing option grants.
As we conducted a review of existing literature no approval of an ethics committee was required.
