Digital transformation covers more and more spheres of life and countries. Digitalization of public administration can provide a serious increase in its quality and efficiency, contribute to the accelerated socioeconomic development of the whole society. First of all, the application of digital technologies in regulatory decision-making works for this task. The author reveals that digital technologies make it possible to take "proactive" measures consistent with external challenges, objective data and public attitudes. The article describes the examples of the application of digital technologies in public administration. As part of the administrative reform and the transition to e-government, some information mechanisms have been introduced in Russia to improve public administration (for example, a significant amount of information has been disclosed on official websites, platforms have been created on the Internet to post information about drafting legal acts and their public discussion). However, digital technologies open up new horizons. In Russia, the practical side of the digital transformation of public administration has been worked out slightly, which determined the relevance, purpose and objectives of the research to analyze the experience and prospects of the application of digital technologies in public administration and, in particular, regulatory decision-making. The measures for the application of specific digital technologies in the assessment of regulatory acts (in the regulatory impact assessment) are propose in the research, and their importance for improving the quality of the formed at the same time regulatory environment is shown.