Section 3 is intended to provide for those exceptional occasions when it might be necessary to guarantee the confidentiality of EU proceedings. It is proposed that where this procedure is invoked, the Minister may make a report to the Oireachtas as he or she considers appropriate in the circumstances. This provision is necessary in view of the wide remit of the Act, which embraces all three pillars as well as proposals by member states under the second and third pillars. It is envisaged that it would only be used in exceptional circumstances and is most likely to arise in the CFSP and JHA areas.