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directive

  1. EUROPEAN UNION Directives which EU member states are required to incorporate into their own legislation. For example, The Fourth Directive introduced standardized formats for presenting company accounts; the Seventh Directive tightened up the requirements relating to group accounts; the Eighth Directive dealt with the qualifications of auditors.
  2. a request' by the monetary authorities that the COMMERCIAL BANKS and other financial institutions should limit the amount of LOANS and OVERDRAFTS they make available, in order to control spending in the economy. See MONETARY POLICY for further details.
Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson

directive (bank)

an instrument of MONETARY POLICY involving the control of bank lending as a means of regulating the MONEY SUPPLY. If, for example, the monetary authorities wish to lower the money supply, they can ‘direct’ the banks to reduce the total amount of loan finance made available to personal and corporate borrowers. A reduction in bank lending can be expected to lead to a multiple contraction of bank deposits and, hence, a fall in the money supply. See BANK DEPOSIT CREATION.
Collins Dictionary of Economics, 4th ed. © C. Pass, B. Lowes, L. Davies 2005
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Member States had to adopt and publish, by the date of accession of Croatia to the Union at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive 2013/25/EU.
Commission urges 5 Member States, including Cyprus, to fully implement EU rules
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According to the EC's press office, to date Bulgaria, Estonia and the UK have only partially transposed the Electricity and Gas Directives. The Directives had to be transposed by the Member States by 3 March 2011.
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The primary initial model was for the case managers to introduce advance directives to the consumers on their caseload, in the regular course of their work with consumers, and to provide facilitation for those consumers who expressed an interest in completing an advance directive.
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