The Law on Gender mainstreaming was adopted on 12 January 2007 Since 2009, the Annual Circular letter on the elaboration of the budget mentions the obligation of applying gender budgeting. In 2010, a specific Circular letter on gender budgeting was adopted. It describes in detail the objectives of gender budgeting and the procedure to be followed.  In 2011 a manual was elaborated by the Institute for the equality of women and men: https://igvm-iefh.belgium.be/sites/default/files/downloads/Manual%20gender%20budgeting.pdf The manual describes the method that has to be applied. There is a biannual evaluation of the application, published on the website of the Institute and included in the intermediate report and the report at the end of the period of office, transmitted to the Parliament