Part 1: Environmental Governance Chapter 2: The Office for Environmental Protection Section 29: Monitoring and reporting on environmental law
Section 29 requires the OEP to monitor the implementation of environmental law and provides a power to issue reports on any matter to do with the implementation of environmental law.
	Subsection (1) requires the OEP to monitor the implementation of environmental law. Environmental law is defined in section 46 of this Act. An example of environmental law caught by this duty would be the Habitats Regulations.
	Subsection (2) allows the OEP, as it deems appropriate, to produce a report on any matter concerned with the implementation of environmental law. This provision would, for example, allow the OEP to produce a report considering the operation of existing environmental legislation, highlighting particular strengths and weaknesses. For example, if the OEP identified a significant issue in the implementation of part of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 relevant to its remit, it may choose to report on this.
	Subsection (3) ensures that the OEP does not duplicate the work of the Committee on Climate Change by preventing the OEP monitoring or reporting on specific matters which are already within the statutory remit of that Committee. Subsection (4) lists those matters. These subsections do not prevent the OEP from monitoring and reporting on other climate change legislation that falls within its remit.
	Subsection (5) requires the OEP’s reports to be laid before Parliament and published. This reflects the OEP’s independence from the government when carrying out its reporting functions.
	Subsections (6) and (7) require the Secretary of State to lay before Parliament and publish a response to a report issued by the OEP under this section within three months of that report being laid.