{"id":"HUN-004","notes":"Prototype foreign agents law for EU context. TC-33 export node: directly influenced BiH Draft Law on Foreign Agents 2023, Serbian proposals, Georgian FARA 2024.","country":"Hungary","sources":[{"url":null,"citation":"Helsinki Committee Diary (helsinkifigyelo.hu); ECF/Okotars 2025; Human Rights First 2017"}],"summary":"Parliament passed Act LXXVI of 2017 (LexNGO 2017) requiring CSOs above threshold to register as foreign-funded organizations and label all external communications accordingly; disproportionate fines for non-compliance. Explicitly modeled on Russia 2012 foreign agents law. CJEU struck it down June 2020 as violating EU free movement of capital. Hungary repealed April 2021.","tactics":[{"code":"TC-23","role":"primary","label":"Foreign Agent Legislation","needs_review":false},{"code":"TC-18","role":"secondary","label":"Legislative Operationalization","needs_review":false}],"version":2,"channels":["Parliament","Regulatory"],"entities":[{"id":827,"name":"Fidesz parliamentary majority","role":"actor","entity_type":"Government"},{"id":830,"name":"CSOs receiving foreign funding above HUF 9M (~EUR 24,000 threshold); OSF partners, HHC, TI-HU, Okotars","role":"target","entity_type":"CSO"}],"date_text":"06/2017","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","escalation":4,"harm_track":"Track 1 — Financial Strangulation","narratives":[{"code":"NF-01","role":"primary","label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","needs_review":false},{"code":"NF-02","role":"secondary","label":"Financial Corruption / Grant Abuse","needs_review":false}],"report_ids":[],"signal_ids":[],"updated_at":"2026-09-24T23:55:14.269351+00:00","occurred_on":"2017-06-01","campaign_ids":["HUN-CAMP-001"],"enabler_type":"","response_ids":["CR-HUN-001"],"trigger_type":"TR-08: Proactive / Ambient","campaign_phase":"Phase 4: Institutionalization","civic_response":"HCLU and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee publicly refused to register as 'foreign-funded' despite the risk of sanctions; the Civilizáció coalition coordinated the sector's resistance. | Outcome (see Civic Responses CR-HUN-001): HCLU and HHC refused to register; Civilizáció coordinated resistance. EU Court struck the law down (C-78/18, 18 June 2020); repealed April 2021.","date_precision":"month","enabler_status":"","campaigns_served":[],"consequence_category":"Financial Strangulation","institutional_consequence":"Stigmatization of 60+ organizations; chilling of foreign philanthropic funding"}