{"id":"SIG-BIH-015","country":"BiH (RS)","excerpt":"RS Government adopts foreign agent law draft (March 2023); RS National Assembly passes draft for public consultation (September 28, 2023) — law requires mandatory registration, labeling, and activity restrictions for foreign-funded CSOs, with Justice Minister gaining authority to propose bans on non-compliant organizations. Law withdrawn from procedure in May 2024 after 14 months of sustained civil society and international pressure. Dodik's withdrawal statement (May 28, 2024) explicitly frames","date_text":"28/09/2023","actor_text":"RS government and National Assembly","source_url":"https://balkaninsight.com/2025/02/10/emboldened-by-trump-bosnian-serb-leader-brings-back-foreign-agents-law/bi/","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-003","incident_id":"BIH-015","observation":{"target":"All CSOs receiving foreign funding","case_id":"BIH-015","country":"BiH (RS)","signal_id":"SIG-BIH-015","harm_track":"Both","source_url":"https://balkaninsight.com/2025/02/10/emboldened-by-trump-bosnian-serb-leader-brings-back-foreign-agents-law/bi/","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-003","source_type":"Parliament","tactic_code":"Foreign Agent Legislation","target_type":"Sector","trigger_type":"TR-06: Legislative Milestone","actor_primary":"RS government and National Assembly","campaign_phase":"Phase 4: Institutional Operationalization","event_date_raw":"28/09/2023","channel_primary":"Parliament","date_confidence":"exact","confidence_notes":"WITHDRAWAL AS TACTICAL RETREAT: The RS foreign agent law withdrawal in May 2024 is the first documented case in your BiH ENRICHMENT (BCSDN 2023): During law debate, politicians threatened that banks would freeze CSO accounts — financial exclusion weaponized as leverage even before law passed. See BI | Date refined to exact: September 28, 2023 — RS National Assembly first reading of Draft Law on Special Registry and Publicity of Work of Non-Profit Organizations (foreign agent law). Source: BUKA September 28 2023 parliamentary coverage (article in database with minister Bukejlović presentation and MP Dragojević-Stojić, Crnadak responses).","escalation_stage":"4","actor_type_primary":"RS entity-level full legislative apparat","source_text_excerpt":"RS Government adopts foreign agent law draft (March 2023); RS National Assembly passes draft for public consultation (September 28, 2023) — law requires mandatory registration, labeling, and activity restrictions for foreign-funded CSOs, with Justice Minister gaining authority to propose bans on non-compliant organizations. Law withdrawn from procedure in May 2024 after 14 months of sustained civil society and international pressure. Dodik's withdrawal statement (May 28, 2024) explicitly frames","consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative + Social Trust Erosion","secondary_source_url":"","event_date_normalized":"2023-09-28","primary_narrative_code":"NF-01","primary_narrative_label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","secondary_narrative_code":"","institutional_consequence":"Legislation introduced; Chilling effect","secondary_narrative_label":""},"response_id":null,"source_type":"Parliament","target_text":"All CSOs receiving foreign funding","date_confidence":"exact","normalized_date":"2023-09-28","confidence_notes":"WITHDRAWAL AS TACTICAL RETREAT: The RS foreign agent law withdrawal in May 2024 is the first documented case in your BiH ENRICHMENT (BCSDN 2023): During law debate, politicians threatened that banks would freeze CSO accounts — financial exclusion weaponized as leverage even before law passed. See BI | Date refined to exact: September 28, 2023 — RS National Assembly first reading of Draft Law on Special Registry and Publicity of Work of Non-Profit Organizations (foreign agent law). Source: BUKA September 28 2023 parliamentary coverage (article in database with minister Bukejlović presentation and MP Dragojević-Stojić, Crnadak responses).","secondary_source_url":""}