The word "directive" is correct and usable in written English.
Generally, it is used to refer to an instruction or a declaration that outlines requirements or expectations. For example, "The new directive from the boss was that all employees must arrive at work fifteen minutes before their start time."
Although the Ministry of Justice denies responsibility, the directive represents the hostility of much of the public, amplified by government spokespeople, directed specifically to influence the courts.
The new directive from the Indonesian justice minister, Amir Syamsuddin, to deny Iranians the right to buy temporary visas upon arrival, addresses an issue raised by Rudd in recent talks with the Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
He argued that under Europe's data protection directive, "outdated, irrelevant or incorrect" information should be removed.
Well, actually: a 2005 State Department directive said "It is the Department's general policy that normal day-to-day operations be conducted on an authorized [Automated Information System], which has the proper level of security control to provide nonrepudiation, authentication and encryption, to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resident information".
The ECJ ruling followed a court case brought in Spain by Mario Costeja González, a lawyer who argued that under the European Data Protection directive any company carrying out "data processing" should have to remove information about him that was "outdated, wrong or irrelevant" which he argued applied to a Spanish newspaper's online report in March 1998 about financial problems he had had.
Its own leader makes that clear: "The importance of these papers is not whether they reveal the prince's controversial (or not) views on the European Union directive on herbal medicines.
The European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding made it very clear that new Romanian and Bulgarian migrants to the UK will have the same rights as those already there under the free movement directive.
The real spur behind the coalition's attack on the working time directive is to be seen by business to be cutting the much hated but vastly over-hyped "red tape" that is supposed to stifle entrepreneurship.
Alexander Rheeney, president of the Media Council of PNG, told Guardian Australia he raised the issue with the Department of Foreign Affairs after local journalists told him about the directive given in Port Moresby.
The free movement directive, which has been in force since 2004, allows EU states to require new migrants who want to stay longer than six months to "be in employment or have sufficient resources and sickness benefit not to be a burden on public funds".
Tuesday's votes marked the European parliament's first reading of a draft tobacco directive that could become law in 2014.
