Since the objectives of this Directive, namely to improve the waste management in the Union, and thereby to contribute to the protection, preservation and improvement of the quality of the environment and to the prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, but can rather, by reason of the scale and effects of the measures, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union.
Ós rud é nach féidir leis na Ballstáit cuspóirí na Treorach seo, eadhon feabhas a chur ar bhainistiú dramhaíola san Aontas, agus ar an gcaoi sin rannchuidiú le cosaint, caomhnú agus feabhsú cháilíocht an chomhshaoil agus le húsáid stuama agus réasúnach acmhainní nádúrtha, a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach agus, de bharr fhairsinge agus éifeachtaí na mbeart, gur fearr is féidir iad a ghnóthú ar leibhéal an Aontais, féadfaidh an tAontas bearta a ghlacadh, i gcomhréir le prionsabal na coimhdeachta a leagtar amach in Airteagal 5 den Chonradh ar an Aontas Eorpach.