Section 10 provides for the expert advisory body to conduct periodic reviews of national policy and report to Government on its findings and recommendations. The expert body will be required to undertake its first periodic review within 12 months of publication of the fifth assessment report by the intergovernmental panel on climate change. The assessment report from the intergovernmental panel is expected in 2014 and, by extension, the first major review from the expert advisory body should be submitted to Government in 2015. In addition to the requirement to produce a periodic review at least every seven years the expert advisory body will have statutory authority to carry out a review at any time, either on its own initiative or on foot of a request from the Minister. In considering whether to carry out a review section 10 requires the body to have regard to significant developments in scientific knowledge, EU or international law or the need to maintain progress in achieving the purposes of the Act. Annual reports and reports on foot of periodic reviews will be published by the expert advisory body, subject to the consent of the Government.