Chile
Ley de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública
Ley N° 20.285 (2008)
Chile's transparency law, enforced by an independent council. The DGAC — the civil-aviation authority that hosts the standing UAP office — answers under it.
The clock
20 business days
20 días hábiles from receipt, extendable once by 10 more where the records are hard to gather.
The 20-business-day clock is among the better-kept in the region; requests to the DGAC go through the state Portal de Transparencia.
Reading the statute itself
The text of this one is not reproduced here: foreign legislation is published under its own country’s copyright rules, so it is linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.
If they refuse
- Appeal deadline
- 15 days — días hábiles from refusal or silence to file an amparo
- Appeal route
- Amparo before the Consejo para la Transparencia within 15 business days, then the Corte de Apelaciones.
- Litigation
- Corte de Apelaciones (reclamo de ilegalidad).
Fees and expedition
Fee-waiver standard
Free; only direct reproduction costs may be charged.
Aletheca argues this on every request it files here. A service that publishes every page it receives, free, to a public archive has an unusually strong showing — considerably stronger than a private requester’s.
Exemptions it allows
- Art. 21 N°3 Seguridad de la Nación
- Art. 21 N°2 Derechos de las personas
- Art. 21 N°5 Secreto por ley de quórum calificado