Co-efficient. An applicant becomes entitled to the rights under the International Protection Act with the lodging of a complete application. This is the start of the twelve-month rule. <br />For determining the costs that were incurred in the first 12 months, the following information has been taken into account:<br />- the average time for a final decision is 63 days;<br />- the average time for a final decision, excluding discontinued and rejected applications, is 593 days;<br />- the number of individual categories, namely 3,625 applications that were discontinued or rejected and 213 applications that were under the substantive decision-making process.