Part 1: Environmental Governance Chapter 2: The Office for Environmental Protection Section 24: The OEP’s strategy: process
Section 24 sets out the process for publishing and revising the OEP’s strategy, which it must prepare under section 23. The strategy sets out how the OEP will carry out its functions. A number of other public bodies, such as the Equality and Human Rights Commission, have a similar statutory duty to prepare a strategic plan.
	Subsection (1) requires the strategy (and each subsequent revised strategy) to be laid before Parliament and published. This is intended to provide transparency and clarity to the government, Parliament, and other stakeholders on the operational framework and strategic direction of the OEP, which it itself determines.
	Subsection (2) allows the OEP to revise its strategy at any time. For example, it may need to reprioritise its work programme based on the types of complaint received during a particular period, or to address a newly emerging substantive issue that falls within its remit.
	Subsection (3) ensures that the strategy remains a live document, which is kept up to date and relevant to the OEP’s statutory remit, by requiring a review of the strategy at least once in every "review period". Subsection (4) specifies the review period as three years for the first strategy and for each subsequent strategy. The three-year review period is designed to be an appropriate amount of time to ensure that the production of the plan is not overly burdensome, yet to also ensure that it stays up to date.
	Subsection (5) provides that before producing, revising or reviewing the strategy, the OEP must consult relevant stakeholders as it considers appropriate. This could include the government, although Ministers or other parties will not have powers to veto any part of the strategy.