Examining Chile's administrative capacities for making new regulations

Chapter 4 sheds light on how current processes for passing laws and subordinate regulations support the application of the core principles of good regulation. It describes and evaluates systematic capacities to generate high-quality regulation, and to ensure that both processes and decisions are transparent to the public. In doing so, it touches upon several practices implemented by other OECD countries such as forward planning, effective communication and accessibility of rules for regulated entities, the use of plain language when drafting and communicating regulation. The chapter also analyses the use of consultation for dialogue with affected groups and stakeholders and its consequence regarding the choice of policy instruments embodied in the figure of new regulations or other non-regulatory alternatives. Finally, it introduces the notion, and potential use, of Regulatory Impact Assessment as part of evidence-based rule-making.