- country
- BiH (RS)
- date text
- 28/09/2023
- actor text
- RS government and National Assembly
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-003
- 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).
- date confidence
- exact
- 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 Law withdrawn from procedure in May 2024 after 14 months of sustained civil society and international pressure.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
- id
- SIG-BIH-015
- incident id
- BIH-015
- normalized date
- 2023-09-28
- observation
- country
- BiH (RS)
- actor primary
- RS government and National Assembly
- actor type primary
- RS entity-level full legislative apparat
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-003
- campaign phase
- Phase 4: Institutional Operationalization
- case id
- BIH-015
- channel primary
- Parliament
- 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).
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative + Social Trust Erosion
- date confidence
- exact
- escalation stage
- 4
- event date normalized
- 2023-09-28
- event date raw
- 28/09/2023
- harm track
- Both
- institutional consequence
- Legislation introduced; Chilling effect
- primary narrative code
- NF-01
- primary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- signal id
- SIG-BIH-015
- 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
- source type
- Parliament
- source url
- https://balkaninsight.com/2025/02/10/emboldened-by-trump-bosnian-serb-leader-brings-back-foreign-agents-law/bi/
- tactic code
- Foreign Agent Legislation
- target
- All CSOs receiving foreign funding
- target type
- Sector
- trigger type
- TR-06: Legislative Milestone
- source type
- Parliament
- source url
- https://balkaninsight.com/2025/02/10/emboldened-by-trump-bosnian-serb-leader-brings-back-foreign-agents-law/bi/
- target text
- All CSOs receiving foreign funding
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