Country laws and analyses

Armenia

Laws and regulations

Constitution, 1995 (amended 2015)
Law on Public Organisations, 2016
Law on State Registration of Legal Entities, Separate Subdivisions of Legal Entities, Institutions and Private Entrepreneurs, 2011
Law on Charity, 2002
Law on Mass Media, 2003
Law on Freedom of Assemblies, 2011
Law on Public Council, 2018
Law on Normative Legal Acts, 2018
Law on Freedom of Information, 2003

Analyses

Annual report of CPFE on the Situation with Freedom of Expression and Violations of Rights of Journalists and Media in Armenia-2019, Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, 24 January 2020
Monitoring of freedom of peaceful assemblies (July 2019 – June 2020), Report, Helsinki Committee of Armenia, Yerevan, 2020
Civil participation in the decision-making process: Fact finding visit to Armenia 27-29 November 2019, Report, Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe, June 2020
Freedom in the World 2020: Armenia, Freedom House
Nations in Transit 2020: Armenia, Freedom House
2018 Annual Report of CPFE on the Situation with Freedom of Expression and Violations of Rights of Journalists and Media in Armenia, Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, 2019
Ditord #1 (73). Human Rights in Armenia 2018, Helsinki Committee of Armenia, Yerevan, March 2019
Enabling Environment National Assessment (EENA) – National Report, Armenia, Yerevan, 2018
Freedom in the World 2019: Armenia, Freedom House
Monitoring of Hate Speech (Pilot Project): Report (July 2018-June 2019), Helsinki Committee of Armenia, 2019
Monitoring of CSO State Funding Sources, NGO Center Civil Society Development NGO, Yerevan, 2019
Nations in Transit: Armenia, Freedom House
Report on Monitoring Collaborative Governance Model of Policy Making in Armenia (in Armenian), NGO Center, Araza NGO, 2017
Report on Monitoring of Freedom of Peaceful Assemblies, (July 2018 – June 2019), Helsinki Committee of Armenia, Yerevan, 2019
Report on observations of the events that occurred and of the assemblies that were held in the Republic of Armenia in April-May 2018, Helsinki Committee of Armenia, Yerevan, 2018

Azerbaijan

Laws and regulations

The Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (public unions and funds), June 13, 2000
The Law on Grants, April 17, 1998
The Law on Public Participation, November 22, 2013
The Law on State Registration of Legal Entities and the State Registry, December 12, 2003
The Law on Voluntary Activity, June 9, 2009
Decision # 336 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan of October 21, 2015 On “Rules on submission of information about amount of donation received by NGOs as well as by branches or representations of NGOs of foreign states and about the donor”
The Decision #339 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan of October 22, 2015 on “Rules on obtaining the right to provide grants in the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan by foreign donors”
The Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan No. 216, dated 5 June 2015 On “The Rules on Registration of Grant Agreements (Decisions)”
Decision # 337 of October 21, 2015 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan on “Rules on registration of service contracts on provision of services or implementation of work by NGOs, as well as by branches or representations of foreign NGOs from foreign sources”
The Code of the Azerbaijan Republic On Administrative Violations, December 29, 2015

Analyses

Charity in Azerbaijan: Prospects for Developing Legislation and Practice, M.Guluzade, N.Bourjaily, IJNL, 2009.
The NGO Law: Azerbaijan Loses Another Case in the European Court, M.Guluzade, N.Bourjaily, IJNL, May 2010.
Azerbaijani NGO Support Council: Overview of Three Years of Activity, M.Guluzade, N.Bourjaily, IJNL, April 2012.
Guide on NGO registration (in Azeri), Baku 2012.
Guide on NGO dissolution (in Azeri), Baku 2012.
Opinion of the Venice Commission on NGO Law of Azerbaijan, 2014.
Foreign funding in Azerbaijan: challenges and perspectives, Mahammad Guluzade and Natalia Bourjaily
Regulation of income of NGOs in Azerbaijan, M. Guluzade, Baku 2017.
Assessment of the Legal Framework for NGOs in Azerbaijan, 2017, ICNL
Country report: Social economy in Azerbaijan, (M.Guluzade in co-authorship), 2018.
Guide for NGO reporting in Azerbaijan, M. Guluzade, Baku 2018.

Belarus

Laws and regulations

The Law “On public associations” of October 4, 1994 with subsequent amendments
The Resolution of the Ministry of Justice №48 “On approving legal normative acts on issues of completing and considering documents relating to state registration of political parties, labor unions, other public associations, their unions (associations), as well as state registration and exclusion from the registry, inclusion and taking from records information about their structural units” of August 30, 2005 with subsequent amendments
Regulations on the creation, activities and liquidation of the foundations in the Republic of Belarus, approved by Edict of the president №302 of July 1, 2005 with subsequent amendments
The Decree of the president №1 “On state registration and liquidation (termination of activities) of subjects of economic activities” of January 16, 2009 with subsequent amendments
The Decree of the president “On foreign gratuitous aid” of № 5 from August 31, 2015 – draft amendment available here
The Edict of the president №302 from July 1, 2005 “On provision and use of gratuitous (sponsor) aid” with subsequent amendments
The Law “On Mass Events in the Republic of Belarus” from December 30, 1997 with subsequent amendments
The Law “On mass media” from July 17, 2008 with subsequent amendments
The Law “On actions to be taken to prevent legitimization of the proceeds of crime and the financing of terrorism and financing the weapons of mass destruction proliferation” of June 30, 2014 with subsequent amendments – draft law on amendments, adopted in first reading available here
“Interagency Action Plan on implementation of recommendations accepted by the Republic of Belarus following the second cycle of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review 2016-2019 and from the human rights treaty bodies” (also known as “National Human Rights Action Plan) of 24 October 2016, adopted by resolution of the Council of Ministers №860

Analyses

Mapping Study “Belarus Civil Society Organisations In Cross-Sectoral Dialogue” – summary of legal environment research and expert survey (2014)
Legal aspects of NPO fundraising by electronic means in Belarus – an analytical overview (2018) for International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) by Olga Smolyanko and Yury Chavusau
Analytical review “NCOs’ access to foreign gratuitous aid: international experience of legal regulations, legislation and practice in the Republic of Belarus (2019) by Legal Transformation Center
Roadmap for EU Engagement with Civil Society in Belarus 2018-2020 adopted September 11 2018
Assessment of the Legal Framework for Non-Governmental Organizations in the Republic of Belarus (2013) by International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) under Belarus Reforms and Media Assistance Program (BRAMA)
Belarusian Civil Society: dynamics of change in an unfriendly environment (2018) by Olga Smolianko, Aksana Shelest, Andrei Yahorau
Joint submission by National Human Rights Coalition on implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the Republic of Belarus – Represented to the 124^th session of the UN Human Rights Committee (2018)
Freedom of association and legal conditions for non-commercial organizations in Belarus – Review Period: 2017 (updated version) by Legal Transformation Center and Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs (2017)
Freedom of association and legal conditions for non-commercial organizations in Belarus – Review Period: 2018 by Legal Transformation Center and Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs (2018)
Semi-annual review entitled “Changes in Legal Environment for Non-Commercial Organizations and Freedom of Associations in Belarus” covering the first half of 2019 by Legal Transformation Center and Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs (2019)

Georgia

Laws and regulations

Constitution of Georgia – English, Georgian
Civil Code of Georgia – English (2018), Georgian
Tax Code of Georgia – English (2017), Georgian
Law of Georgia on Assemblies and Demonstrations – English (2017), Georgian
Law of Georgia On Freedom of Speech and Expression – English, Georgian
Law of Georgia on Grants – English (outdated), Georgian
Local Self-government Code – English, Georgian
Law on Volunteerism – Georgian
Law on Lobbying Activities – Georgian
Law of Georgia on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination – English, Georgian

Analyses

NDI Georgia Election Watch Pre-election Report
NDI Georgia Election Watch Report on Parliamentary Elections
EU Roadmap for Engagement with Civil Society in Georgia, 2018 – 2020 – English, Georgian
Public Administration Reform Roadmap 2020, Georgia – English, Georgian
OGP Action Plan 2018-2019, Georgia – English, Georgian
USAID 2017 Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index – English
Attitudes of the Population of Georgia towards Civil Society Organizations, European Integration and Business Entities, 2018 – English, Georgian
Civil Society Organizations’ State Funding Reform, Policy Paper, 2018 – English, Georgian
State Funding Mechanisms for Civil Society Organizations in Georgia, Civil Society Institute, 2017 – English, Georgian
Situation Analysis of Civil Society in Georgia, Europe Foundation, 2016 – English
Civil Participation in Decision Making in the Eastern Partnership Countries, 2016 – English
Policy Papers on Cooperation Between the State and Civil Society Organizations, ECNL, 2016 – English
Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development in the Black Sea region, 2015 – English
Public Attitudes in Georgia, carried out for NDI by CRRC Georgia, 2019 – English

Moldova

Laws and regulations

Analyses

Opinion by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law on the special provisions of the draft law on non-commercial organisations of the Republic of Moldova, ECNL, 2017
How can we make the decision-making process in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova more transparent?, LRCM, 2018
How does the State Restricts Access of the Media to Information of Public Interest?, CPR, 2017
HATE SPEECH AND INCITEMENT TO DISCRIMINATION in the public space and the media in the Republic of Moldova, Promo-LEX, 2018
Direct state funding of CSOs in the Republic of Moldova, ECNL, 2018 (Romanian)
Identifying barriers and gaps in the state contracting of services provided by CSOs, Chisinau, LACPD, 2018 (Romanian)
Civil society organisations sustainability index 2017, Republic of Moldova, CICO, FHi360, 2018
Monitoring Right to Free Assembly 2017-2018, Promo-LEX, Moldova, 2018
Perceptions of human rights in the Republic of Moldova, UNDP, 2018
Radiography of attacks against non-governmental organisations from the republic of Moldova, LRCM, 2018

Ukraine

Laws and regulations

Constitution of Ukraine
The Law of Ukraine “On Public Associations” dated 22.03.2012 № 4572-V
The Law of Ukraine “On Charity and Charitable Organizations” dated 06.11.2016 № 1664-VIII
The Law of Ukraine “On the State Registration of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Civic Associations” dated 15.05.2005 № 755-IV
The Tax Code of Ukraine
The Law of Ukraine “On Prevention of Corruption” dated 14. 10. 2014 No. 1700-VII
The Law of Ukraine “On Public Procurements”
The Law of Ukraine “On Access to Public Information”
The Law of Ukraine “On Local Self-Government in Ukraine”
The Law of Ukraine “On protection of personal data”
The Law “On Volunteering activities”

Analyses

Freedom of the World 2018 – Ukraine, Freedomhouse
World Press Freedom Index
Democracy in Ukraine: Are we there Yet? by Mikhail Minakov and Matthew Rojansky, Kennan Cable No. 30, January 2018
Public opinion survey to assess the changes in citizen’s awareness of civil society and their activities
Ukraine-EU Country Roadmap for engagement with Civil Society 2018-2020
Top 10 Achievements of the Eastern Partnership in the last 10 Years
Human Rights Watch World Report 2019
Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine: 16 November 2016 to 15 February 2017
OSCE ODIHR Hate Crime Reporting – Ukraine
National Risk Assessment report on preventing and countering legalization (laundering) of proceeds of crime and financing of terrorism