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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2026/4",
  "legislation_title": "Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-principles-governance-and-biodiversity-targets-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Monitoring and reporting",
  "text": "(1) The OEGW must monitor—\n(a) public authorities’ compliance with environmental law, and\n(b) the implementation and application of environmental law.\n(2) The OEGW may report on—\n(a) any matter that it is required to monitor under subsection (1), or\n(b) any other matter concerned with the making of environmental law or its effectiveness.\n(3) The OEGW must—\n(a) publish its reports under subsection (2), and\n(b) lay copies of the reports before Senedd Cymru.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 27.4.2028 (conditional on an earlier day not being appointed by Welsh Ministers), see s. 46(4)(5)(6)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/4",
      "affecting_title": "Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/4/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:38.736045+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}