Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Act 2026

22 Improvement reports

(1) The OEGW may publish an improvement report if it considers that a public authority is failing or has at any time (whether before or after this Act receives Royal Assent) failed to—

(a) comply with environmental law, or

(b) implement or apply environmental law effectively.

(2) The OEGW may also publish an improvement report if it considers that the Welsh Ministers or other public authority has failed to make effective environmental law.

(3) A single improvement report under subsection (1) may relate to a failure by two or more public authorities but only if the OEGW is satisfied that all the authorities concerned are exercising or have exercised their functions in such a way as to lead to the same, or similar, alleged failure.

(4) Where the OEGW publishes an improvement report, it must—

(a) send a copy of the report to—

(i) the public authority in relation to whose alleged failure the report is published, and

(ii) if the Welsh Ministers are not the public authority in relation to whose alleged failure the report is published, the Welsh Ministers, and

(b) lay a copy of the report before Senedd Cymru.