Part 1: Environmental Governance Chapter 2: The Office for Environmental Protection Section 41: Public statements
This section deals with requirements on the OEP to publish statements when it takes certain enforcement actions.
	Subsection (1) provides that the OEP must publish a statement, for example in the form of a press release, whenever it serves an information or decision notice, applies for environmental review, judicial review, or statutory review, or applies to intervene in judicial review. This subsection also sets out the information that this statement must contain.
	Subsection (2) provides that the OEP does not need to publish a statement if it considers that it would not be in the public interest to do so. For example, the OEP might judge it to be not in the public interest to publish a statement about its enforcement activities that would prejudice the protection of personal or confidential data.
	The provisions of this section are intended to provide an appropriate degree of transparency as regards the enforcement action that the OEP is taking and against whom. The European Commission also publishes press statements at key stages of the infraction process, although this is not a legal requirement on the European Commission as it will be for the OEP.