Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to ensure a harmonised approach to trade in breeding animals and their germinal products and their entry into the Union, as well as to the official controls necessary to be performed on breeding programmes carried out by breed societies and breeding operations, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of its effect, complexity, transborder and international character, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as referred to in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union.
Ós rud é nach féidir leis na Ballstáit cuspóirí an Rialacháin seo, eadhon cur chuige comhchuibhithe a áirithiú maidir le trádáil ainmhithe pórúcháin agus táirgí geirmeacha díobh agus lena dtabhairt isteach san Aontas chomh maith leis na rialuithe oifigiúla is gá a chur i bhfeidhm ar chláir phóraithe arna gcur i gcrích ag cumainn phóir agus oibríochtaí pórúcháin, a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach ar an leibhéal náisiúnta, ach gur féidir, de bharr a éifeachta, a chastachta agus a nádúr trasteorann agus idirnáisiúnta, iad a ghnóthú níos fearr ar leibhéal an Aontais, féadfaidh an tAontas bearta a ghlacadh, i gcomhréir le prionsabal na coimhdeachta amhail dá dtagraítear in Airteagal 5 den Chonradh ar an Aontas Eorpach.