El carácter transnacional del Sistema comunitario de ecogestion « Eco-Management and Audit Scheme » (EMAS) dentro de la UE y más allá de sus fronteras

EMAS is a management instrument developed by the European Commission for Companies and others Organizations which objective is to assess, inform and improve their environmental performance. EMAS can be applied in the worldwide. Today, we count more than 4500 organizations and 8.150 sites concerned by the system. It both concerns multinational companies, small societies and public authorities. The exibility of this instrument makes possible this broad and transnational application. At European and international levels, various case studies can be taken into account: the Parc Industriel de la Plain de lAin in France and the case of Trinidad and Tobago. This transnational application highlights uniform application of the European legal norm. This contribution will permit to make a theoretical reexion on the social reception of legal norms, but also on effectiveness and efcacy of such norms.