Directorate may refer to:

Contemporary

Directorates of the Scottish Government The work of the Scottish Government is carried out by Directorates, each headed by a Director. The Directorates are grouped into a number of Directorates-General families, each headed by a Director-General. However, the individual Directorates ar ...

Directorate-General Within the European Union (EU), Directorates-General are departments with specific zones of responsibility. Within the European Commission specifically, Directorates-General are the equivalent of national-level Ministry (government department), m ...

, a type of specialised administrative body in the European Union *

Directorate-General for External Security The Directorate-General for External Security (, , DGSE) is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGSE safeguards French national security through intelli ...

, the French external intelligence agency * Directorate for

Inter-Services Intelligence The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is the premier Pakistani Intelligence community, intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing any information from around the world that is deemed relevant t ...

, the premier intelligence service of Pakistan and a division of Pakistan Army *

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India) The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is a statutory body of the Government of India to regulate civil aviation in India. It became a statutory body under the Aircraft (Amendment) Act, 2020. The DGCA investigates aviation accidents a ...

, India's civil safety watch and responsible for investigation for aviation incidents *

General Intelligence Directorate (Jordan) Jordanian General Intelligence Department, (GID) or Mukhabarat (Arabic language, Arabic: ) is the primary civilian foreign and domestic intelligence agency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It functions as both a foreign and domestic intelligen ...

, the Jordanian state intelligence agency *

Intelligence Directorate Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It can be described as the ...

, the Cuban state intelligence agency *

Veterinary Medicines Directorate The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) seeking to protect public health, animal health, the environment and promoting animal welfare by assuring the safet ...

, an agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom) *

Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel) The Israeli Military Intelligence (), often abbreviated to Aman (), is the central, overarching military intelligence body of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Aman was created in 1950, when the Intelligence Department was spun off from the IDF' ...

, the Israeli Defence Force unit in charge upon collecting information in cooperation with the Mossad *

Unit Unit may refer to: General measurement * Unit of measurement, a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law **International System of Units (SI), modern form of the metric system **English units, histo ...

, the Norwegian directorate for information and communications technology (ICT) and joint services in higher education and research which is part of the Ministry of Education and Research of Norway

Historical

French Directory The Directory (also called Directorate; ) was the system of government established by the Constitution of the Year III, French Constitution of 1795. It takes its name from the committee of 5 men vested with executive power. The Directory gov ...

or Directorate, one of the French Revolution's governing bodies, 1795–1799 *

Directorate of Ukraine The Directorate, or Directory () was a provisional collegiate revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian People's Republic, initially formed on 13–14 November 1918 during a session of the Ukrainian National Union in rebellion against th ...

, provisional revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian National Republic, 1918–1920 *

Directorate (Russia) The Directorate ( Kerensky Second Government) was the short-lived transitional government of Russia during the Russian Revolution. It consisted of five main ministers and lasted for about three weeks. Members History The Directorate was foun ...

, the ruling body of the Russian Provisional Government, September–October 1917 *

Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom) The Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) was a department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British War Office. Over its lifetime the Directorate underwent a number of organisational changes, absorbing and shedding se ...

, a department of the War Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 1964 *

Immigration and Nationality Directorate The Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) was part of the Home Office, a department of the United Kingdom government. The department had its headquarters in Croydon, South London, where it occupied thirteen buildings. The IND was responsible ...

, an agency of the Home Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 2007

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