In spite of media coverage of exceptional cases, advance directives remain unknown from patients and doctors.
The fact that it can be correct to set aside a written instructional directive in some exceptional circumstances, does not mean that everyone should trust their personal judgments if they conflict with guidelines.
Public and individual horizons shrink as the president's powers grow through emergency law, exceptional courts and three-hour news broadcasts covering "sacred directives made to governors and ministers".
Directive 75/318/EEC provides for the possibility of granting marketing authorisation under exceptional circumstances, when in the present state of scientific knowledge, comprehensive information on the efficacy and safety under normal conditions of use cannot be provided.
In a report released in August this year, India's Law Commission, an advisory body of legal experts, criticized the court's directive, saying that the death sentence in India is to be used "only in very exceptional and rare cases," when "aggravating and mitigating circumstances" are found.
(Another display case shows a 1946 directive to prefects across the country, instructing that "there must no longer remain any trace of the exceptional legislation instituted under the occupation, and all the documents based upon the Jewish status must be destroyed").
To enforce this directive, a university might prohibit such practices unless a professor or supervisor grants an exemption due to the exceptional quality of the source.
In restoration and conservation, exceptional rules are necessary for the application of efficient toxic substances, which may be not listed in the EU biocide directive.
The directive urges ICE to de-prioritize the removal of those convicted of drug offenses, if "there are compelling and exceptional factors that clearly indicate the alien is not a threat to national security border security, or public safety and should not therefore be an enforcement priority".
Karl Lagerfeld's directive?
