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SIG-SRB-070

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country
Serbia
date text
Oct 2020
actor text
Government of Serbia
campaign id
SRB-CAMP-009
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.
date confidence
month_year
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."
id
SIG-SRB-070
incident id
SRB-070
normalized date
2020-10-01
observation
country
Serbia
actor primary
Government of Serbia
actor type primary
Government Official
campaign id
SRB-CAMP-009
campaign phase
Stage 6: Structural Enabler
campaigns served
SRB-CAMP-009; SRB-CAMP-006; SRB-CAMP-007; SRB-CAMP-012
case id
SRB-070
channel primary
Official/Regulatory
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.
consequence category
Legal/Administrative
date confidence
month_year
enabler status
Active — Office never reinstated
enabler type
Legislative Framework
escalation stage
6
event date normalized
2020-10-01
event date raw
Oct 2020
harm track
Track 1 — Legal/Administrative
institutional consequence
Dedicated CSO-government cooperation mechanism eliminated; cross-government CSO coordination reduced to single ministry
primary narrative code
NF-09
primary narrative label
Political Interference
secondary narrative code
NF-07
secondary narrative label
Democratic Mandate Attack
signal id
SIG-SRB-070
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."
source type
Official/Regulatory
tactic code
Administrative restructuring — elimination of CSO coordination mechanism
target
Civil society sector
target type
Sector
trigger type
TR-01: External Political Event
source type
Official/Regulatory
target text
Civil society sector

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