Article 5 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality stipulates that ‘any draft legislative act should contain a detailed statement making it possible to appraise compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality’.
Člen 5 Protokola o uporabi načel subsidiarnosti in sorazmernosti določa, da „[mora vsak] osnutek zakonodajnega akta [...] vsebovati izjavo s podrobnimi podatki, ki omogočajo oceno njegove skladnosti z načeloma subsidiarnosti in sorazmernosti“.