title: Directorate
text: # Directorate
  
  Directorate may refer to:
  
  ## Contemporary
  
  * Directorates of the Scottish Government
  * Directorate-General, a type of specialised administrative body in the European Union
  * Directorate-General for External Security, the French external intelligence agency
  * Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, the premier intelligence service of Pakistan and a division of Pakistan Army
  * Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India), India's civil safety watch and responsible for investigation for aviation incidents
  * General Intelligence Directorate (Jordan), the Jordanian state intelligence agency
  * Intelligence Directorate, the Cuban state intelligence agency
  * Veterinary Medicines Directorate, an agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom)
  * Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel), the Israeli Defence Force unit in charge upon collecting information in cooperation with the Mossad
  * Unit, 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 or Directorate, one of the French Revolution's governing bodies, 1795–1799
  * Directorate of Ukraine, provisional revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian National Republic, 1918–1920
  * Directorate (Russia), the ruling body of the Russian Provisional Government, September–October 1917
  * Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom), a department of the War Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 1964
  * Immigration and Nationality Directorate, an agency of the Home Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 2007
  