# Publishing your BESS Report
Once you are satisfied and ready to publish your report, select 'Publish' and follow the prompts.
When you publish a project a locked version of that project is created, with an associated BESS report. BESS generates your report and then takes you back to the Projects page, from where you can open your published report.
On the Projects page you can open and view any published (locked) versions of your project, open any published reports for that project, or open the active project (via the address link on the Projects Page) to make further changes.
# Saving and Printing your BESS report
Save and print your published report for submission to Council with your other planning permit documentation.
Open the report from either the Projects Page or within the published report. The report will open in pdf format. From here, download, print or save the pdf.