{"id":"SIG-SRB-070","country":"Serbia","excerpt":"CINGO Sep 2025: Government Office for Collaboration with Civil Society abolished October 2020 through Law on Ministries — without transparency or consultation. Dedicated monitoring and budget transparency mechanism lost. \"Its closure represents a step backwards in quality of legal drafting, transparency in public spending, and overall openness toward citizens and NGOs.\"","date_text":"Oct 2020","actor_text":"Government of Serbia","source_url":"","campaign_id":"SRB-CAMP-009","incident_id":"SRB-070","observation":{"target":"Civil society sector","case_id":"SRB-070","country":"Serbia","signal_id":"SIG-SRB-070","harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","source_url":"","campaign_id":"SRB-CAMP-009","source_type":"Official/Regulatory","tactic_code":"Administrative restructuring — elimination of CSO coordination mechanism","target_type":"Sector","enabler_type":"Legislative Framework","trigger_type":"TR-01: External Political Event","actor_primary":"Government of Serbia","campaign_phase":"Stage 6: Structural Enabler","enabler_status":"Active — Office never reinstated","event_date_raw":"Oct 2020","channel_primary":"Official/Regulatory","date_confidence":"month_year","campaigns_served":"SRB-CAMP-009; SRB-CAMP-006; SRB-CAMP-007; SRB-CAMP-012","confidence_notes":"Month/year October 2020 — exact date TBC from Law on Ministries. Primary source: CINGO second report September 2025 visit. Stage 6 structural enabler — serves multiple campaigns. Office never reinstated as of September 2025.","escalation_stage":"6","actor_type_primary":"Government Official","source_text_excerpt":"CINGO Sep 2025: Government Office for Collaboration with Civil Society abolished October 2020 through Law on Ministries — without transparency or consultation. Dedicated monitoring and budget transparency mechanism lost. \"Its closure represents a step backwards in quality of legal drafting, transparency in public spending, and overall openness toward citizens and NGOs.\"","consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","secondary_source_url":"","event_date_normalized":"2020-10-01","primary_narrative_code":"NF-09","primary_narrative_label":"Political Interference","secondary_narrative_code":"NF-07","institutional_consequence":"Dedicated CSO-government cooperation mechanism eliminated; cross-government CSO coordination reduced to single ministry","secondary_narrative_label":"Democratic Mandate Attack"},"response_id":null,"source_type":"Official/Regulatory","target_text":"Civil society sector","date_confidence":"month_year","normalized_date":"2020-10-01","confidence_notes":"Month/year October 2020 — exact date TBC from Law on Ministries. Primary source: CINGO second report September 2025 visit. Stage 6 structural enabler — serves multiple campaigns. Office never reinstated as of September 2025.","secondary_source_url":""}