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 a ...

Directorate-General Within the European Union, Directorates-General are departments with specific zones of responsibility, the equivalent of ministries at a national level. Most are headed by a European Commissioner, responsible for the general direction of the Dir ...

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

Directorate-General for External Security The General Directorate for External Security (french: link=no, Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure, DGSE) is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 2 April 1982. ...

, the French external intelligence agency * Directorate for

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

, 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 Directorate, or GID (Arabic: ) is the intelligence agency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The GID is reportedly one of the most important and professional intelligence agencies in the Middle East; the agency has ...

, 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. More generally, it can be ...

, 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 safety ...

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

Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel) The Israeli Military Intelligence ( he, אגף המודיעין; ''Agaf HaModi'in''; lit. "the Intelligence Section"), often abbreviated to Aman ( he, אמ״ן), is the central, overarching military intelligence body of the Israel Defense Forces. ...

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

Unit Unit may refer to: Arts and entertainment * UNIT, a fictional military organization in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' * Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation Music * ''Unit'' (alb ...

, 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 governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and r ...

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 November 13–14, 1918 during a session of the Ukrainian National Union in rebellion against Ukr ...

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

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

, 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 sec ...

, 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 responsib ...

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

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