Abstract.We study the local exact controllability problem for the Navier-Stokes equations that describe an incompressible fluid flow in a bounded domain Ω with control distributed in a subdomainThe result that we obtained in this paper is as follows. Suppose thatv(t, x) is a given solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. Let v0(x) be a given initial condition and v(0, ·)−v0 < ε where ε is small enough. Then there exists a locally distributed control u, supp u ⊂ (0, T ) × ω such that the solution v(t, x) of the Navier-Stokes equations:Résumé. Onétudie le problème de contrôlabilité locale exacte pour leséquations de Navier-Stokes incompressibles dans un domaine Ω borné avec un contrôle réparti dans un sous-domaine ω ⊂ Ω