Calendar year. The twelve month rule starts counting from the 1st Stage of the Admission Process | Admissibility, in which, after submission of the Application for Admission to SEF or any other police authority, SEF issues a Statement of Proof of the Application for International Protection. This document authorizes to stay in Portugal while the process is pending - 2nd phase | Analysis. The costs correspond 2019 fiscal/calendar year counting from the Admission data in SEF’s Refugee/Asylum Applicant Identification document (applicants from 01 January 2019 to 31 December 2019): Admission date + maximum 365 days in 2019. <br />It should be noted that each financing entity reported costs in different or coincident time periods during this period, depending on the type of support provided by each one. However, all the development and procedural and legal evolution of reception are based on the length of stay of refugees in the country, based on SEF document. There are no assumptions or estimates applied.