Mining Concession Law

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Field Value
Sector Mining
Country Chile
Year 1982
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Open data, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type Statute
RGI Sub-component Licensing
RGI Questions 1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?,
1.1.3d: Is the licensing authority independent from the SOE?,
1.1c: What licensing process does the licensing authority follow?,
1.1.3a: Is the government required to set pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in a licensing process?,
1.1.4a: From 2015 onwards, did the licensing authority publicly disclose minimum pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in licensing processes?,
1.1.3c: Prior to each license process, is the licensing authority required to disclose the rules governing the licensing process, such as auction or negotiation rules?,
1.1.2b: Is the publicly available registry of licenses/contracts available online, offline or in paper?,
1.2a: What is the fiscal system for extractive resources?
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Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice Law and
Practice (Both)
Publisher Gobierno de Chile
Author
Source or API link https://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=29522
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email Natural Resource Governance Institute