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From Boundary Drawing to Transitions: the Creation of Normativity under the EU Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control
Author(s) -
Lange Bettina
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
european law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1468-0386
pISSN - 1351-5993
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0386.00152
Subject(s) - normative , directive , argument (complex analysis) , european union , pluralism (philosophy) , epistemology , law and economics , political science , control (management) , water framework directive , sociology , positive economics , law , business , computer science , management , economics , philosophy , biology , ecology , water quality , economic policy , programming language , biochemistry , chemistry
This article aims to make a contribution to debates about how to conceptualise normativity. It argues that normativity can not be just understood through defining it and in particular through identifying conceptual boundaries around the normative and the non‐normative. Instead the article suggests that it is important to explore how transitions between the non‐normative and the normative occur in practice. This argument is developed through a critical examination of literature on legal pluralism and an analysis of qualitative empirical data on the drafting of technical guidance documents under the European Union Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (96/61/EC).