- country
- BiH
- date text
- 05/09/2023
- actor text
- BiH Council of Ministers
- campaign id
- 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.
- date confidence
- exact
- 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.
- id
- SIG-BIH-047
- normalized date
- 2023-09-05
- observation
- country
- BiH
- actor function
- Legislative Actor
- actor primary
- BiH Council of Ministers
- actor type primary
- Senior Official
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-005
- campaign phase
- Stage 6: Structural Enabler
- campaigns served
- BIH-CAMP-005
- channel primary
- Parliament
- 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.
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative
- date confidence
- exact
- enabler status
- Active
- enabler type
- Legislative Infrastructure
- escalation stage
- 6
- event date normalized
- 2023-09-05
- event date raw
- 05/09/2023
- harm track
- Track 1 — Legal/Administrative
- institutional consequence
- Restricted access to public interest information; harder appeals process for CSOs and media
- narrative density
- Medium
- narrative origin
- Domestic
- primary narrative code
- NF-03
- primary narrative label
- AML / Financial Integrity
- secondary source url
- https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- signal id
- SIG-BIH-047
- 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.
- source type
- Parliament
- source url
- https://www.mapmf.org/alert/31074
- tactic code
- TC-04
- target
- Civil society sector; investigative media
- target type
- Sector
- trigger type
- TR-06: Legislative Milestone
- secondary source url
- https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- source type
- Parliament
- source url
- https://www.mapmf.org/alert/31074
- target text
- Civil society sector; investigative media
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