{"id":"SIG-BIH-047","country":"BiH","excerpt":"New BiH Law on Freedom of Access to Information adopted September 5 2023 restricts disclosure of public interest information and makes appeals process harder for CSOs and media. State-level mechanism creating information opacity that civic-finance restriction campaigns depend on. BCSDN 2023 BiH Monitoring Matrix explicitly flags this law.","date_text":"05/09/2023","actor_text":"BiH Council of Ministers","source_url":"https://www.mapmf.org/alert/31074","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-005","incident_id":null,"observation":{"target":"Civil society sector; investigative media","case_id":"","country":"BiH","signal_id":"SIG-BIH-047","harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","source_url":"https://www.mapmf.org/alert/31074","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-005","source_type":"Parliament","tactic_code":"TC-04","target_type":"Sector","enabler_type":"Legislative Infrastructure","trigger_type":"TR-06: Legislative Milestone","actor_primary":"BiH Council of Ministers","actor_function":"Legislative Actor","campaign_phase":"Stage 6: Structural Enabler","enabler_status":"Active","event_date_raw":"05/09/2023","channel_primary":"Parliament","date_confidence":"exact","campaigns_served":"BIH-CAMP-005","confidence_notes":"State-level BiH structural enabler — operates alongside RS entity-level restriction mechanisms. Confirms restriction architecture across BiH political spectrum not only RS. Analytically important: information opacity created by this law makes it harder to document financial flows and expose civic-finance restriction mechanisms.","escalation_stage":"6","narrative_origin":"Domestic","narrative_density":"Medium","actor_type_primary":"Senior Official","source_text_excerpt":"New BiH Law on Freedom of Access to Information adopted September 5 2023 restricts disclosure of public interest information and makes appeals process harder for CSOs and media. State-level mechanism creating information opacity that civic-finance restriction campaigns depend on. BCSDN 2023 BiH Monitoring Matrix explicitly flags this law.","consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","secondary_source_url":"https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/","event_date_normalized":"2023-09-05","primary_narrative_code":"NF-03","primary_narrative_label":"AML / Financial Integrity","secondary_narrative_code":"","institutional_consequence":"Restricted access to public interest information; harder appeals process for CSOs and media","secondary_narrative_label":""},"response_id":null,"source_type":"Parliament","target_text":"Civil society sector; investigative media","date_confidence":"exact","normalized_date":"2023-09-05","confidence_notes":"State-level BiH structural enabler — operates alongside RS entity-level restriction mechanisms. Confirms restriction architecture across BiH political spectrum not only RS. Analytically important: information opacity created by this law makes it harder to document financial flows and expose civic-finance restriction mechanisms.","secondary_source_url":"https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/"}