More than one way to skin a cat?

Remember the story about CCTV cars in London (post dated 10/7/10)?  Well we now learn, to no great surprise, that the drivers of these cars are being expected to issue at least 260 fixed penalty notices a day.  But hang on - wasn't the setting of quotas for the issuing of penalty tickets made illegal some years back?  Ah, but you see the council involved has said that it doesn't set targets for this sort of thing, but it does issue forecasts of what they anticipate the number will be.  Spot the difference??