66.—(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.
(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(1).
S.I. 2007/2325.