The Government has postponed publication of its National Allocation Plan for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
The NAP will set out an overall carbon emissions cap for every country involved in the ETS.

A draft National Allocation Plan was published in January this year, and after consultation the government wants to make some changes to this. The aim is to present the revised Plan by the end of April – a month past the deadline.

However, government claims that these changes will not result in a change to its aims of reducing carbon emissions. Minister of State for DEFRA, Elliot Morley, said: "This in no way undermines our commitment to our climate change targets. We want to take full account of industry concerns raised during consultation. The draft plan committed us to reducing carbon emissions by 5·5 million tonnes beyond our projections of 'business as usual' emissions. We have no intention of going back on that commitment."

The changes will relate to the calculation of sector totals, and distribution of those to installations. The first trading phase of the EU ETS runs for three years from 2005 to 2007. After that trading periods will last for five calendar years.

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