"mandatory measures" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about laws, rules, or regulations that must be followed. For example: "The government has imposed mandatory measures in an effort to stop the spread of the virus."
The Obama administration says that mandatory measures are still not feasible.
Ms. Reding acknowledged that there was "a fierce debate in Germany" in particular over the wisdom of mandatory measures.
But Mr. Martyak emphasized that the New Jersey program was voluntary and that Mrs. Whitman and President Bush were proposing other, mandatory measures to control airborne pollutants.
Just two years ago, the Liberal Democrat MP backed mandatory measures, saying: "A voluntary audit system for private industry is hardly worth the paper it's printed on.
A prerequisite for the United States agreeing on a pact with mandatory measures, he said, would be binding commitments from the largest developing countries.
But supporters of mandatory measures point out that the mounting evidence of the scope and potential severity of climate change problems that has emerged in the last four years has significantly altered both the political and the scientific debates.
In early March, however, he said that if he became president and a mandatory measure reached his desk, he would sign it, although even then he emphasized the difficulty of getting people to adhere to it.
Gov. Jerry Brown was on hand for last year's April 1 snowpack measurement to unveil a historic executive order requiring a 25% reduction in urban water use statewide -- the first such mandatory measure in California history.
Predictably, this has not satisfied environmentalists, who note that there are few mandatory conservation measures.
They had vigorously fought against mandatory ergonomic measures, contending that they could cost American companies $100 billion or more.
These are a result of mandatory sentencing measures such as "three strikes" laws and limits on parole release.
