The Portuguese State Budget Law includes since 2018 a specific article on gender budgeting whereby the budget of public bodies incorporates a gender perspective, by identifying the programmes, activities or measures to be analysed in terms of their impact on equality between women and men in each relevant budget year. Since the 2021 Portuguese State Budget, the specific article on gender budgeting also states that public bodies must promote the publication of the administrative sex disaggregated data pertaining to their programmes and measures subject to a gender impact analysis. Moreover, for the first time in 2021, the State Budget included a set of gender equality indicators across key policy areas, from the digital, to transports, social protection and infrastructures, pay and domestic violence, with the aim of promoting an annual exercise of analysis of the gender impact of budget policies. Every year the Budget General Directorate issues a circular, approved by the Budget State Secretary, with instructions which include a specific section and annex on gender budgeting to be submitted by public bodies.