---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 700.62"
title: "15"
number: "700.62"
heading: "Directives."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/700.62"
---

# §700.62. Directives.

- (a) A directive is an official action which requires a person to take or refrain from taking certain actions in accordance with its provisions.
- (b) A person must comply with each directive issued. However, a person may not use or extend a directive to obtain any items from a supplier, unless expressly authorized to do so in the directive.
- (c) Directives take precedence over all DX rated orders, DO rated orders, and unrated orders previously or subsequently received, unless a contrary instruction appears in the directive.

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 30414, July 30, 1984. Redesignated at 54 FR 601, Jan. 9, 1989, as amended at 79 FR 47570, Aug. 14, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: 50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 5195, et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 3816; 10 U.S.C. 2538; 50 U.S.C. 82; E.O. 12656, 53 FR 226, 3 CFR, 1988 Comp., p. 585; E.O. 12742, 56 FR 1079, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 309; E.O. 13603, 77 FR 16651, 3 CFR, 2012 Comp., p. 225.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 30414, July 30, 1984, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 54 FR 601, Jan. 9, 1989.

### Amendments

[49 FR 30414, July 30, 1984. Redesignated at 54 FR 601, Jan. 9, 1989, as amended at 79 FR 47570, Aug. 14, 2014]