"official groups" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It refers to groups that are formally recognized and sanctioned by an authority or organization. Example: The government's new policy received support from various official groups, including business associations and labor unions.
A rising chorus of experts and official groups advise people to save their money.
The United States sends economic aid abroad through the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, its own Agency for International Development and a few other official groups.
If your offspring haven't already signed up for one of the official groups, you can organise your own event at home (which won't, however, count towards the record).
"Right now, we have 90,000 unofficial groups listed on our site and 35 official ones, and we make more money with the official groups".
Yet official groups had been giving Cyprus a pass for years; the Council of Europe itself had given the country high grades for its anti-money-laundering efforts just two years before.
But the rank-and-file security forces are among the rare official groups (apart from the Republican majority in Congress) who have been reliable supporters of Trump, and whom the President would like to see unconstrained.
An ad hoc group is an official group set up within the Cabinet Office machinery, he says.
In 1909, he said, the first official group to cross the bridge (an "official group" being different from an "official party" when it comes to firsts) made the trip on St. Patrick's Day, two weeks before the opening.
At the same meeting, Colombian and Chilean officials sent word that they would not appear in an official group photograph if it included the Sudanese president.
This meant that the group only had MEPs from six EU member states, just below the number needed to qualify for official group status.
I was shocked, though the concept wasn't revolutionary - the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission sponsors an official group-ride program (pdf) in Manhattan.
