PART 6Powers and functions of the regulator and the appropriate authority

Plans relating to emissions67

1

Subject to paragraph (3), an appropriate authority may make plans for—

a

the setting of limits on the total amount, or the total amount in any period, of emissions from all or any description of source, or

b

the allocation of quotas relating to such emissions.

2

If the appropriate authority allocates a quota in a plan made under paragraph (1) it may also make a scheme for the trading or other transfer of that quota.

3

This regulation does not apply to an emission plan or to the Transitional National Plan.

4

In this regulation—

  • “emission” means the direct or indirect release of any substance from individual or diffuse sources into the air, water or land;

  • “emission plan” has the meaning given in the Large Combustion Plants (National Emission Reduction Plan) Regulations 2007 as those Regulations were in force on 31st March 2016 M1;

  • “Transitional National Plan” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Large Combustion Plants (Transitional National Plan) Regulations 2015 M2.