The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Plans relating to emissions E+W

67.—(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 .

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2007/2325. The date of 31st March 2016 was the day before S.I. 2007/2325 was revoked by S.I. 2015/1973, with a saving provision in relation to where its provisions were referred to in connection with the definition of terms in other instruments.

M2 S.I. 2015/1973.