Since the objectives of this Directive, which are to contribute to the protection of human health and the environmentally sound recovery and disposal of waste EEE by means of the restriction of the use of hazardous substances in EEE, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States because disparities between the laws or administrative measures adopted by the Member States could create barriers to trade and distort competition in the Union and thus have a direct impact on the internal market, but can rather, by reason of the scale of the problem and its implications in respect of other Union legislation on recovery and disposal of waste and areas of common interest, such as human health protection, 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 rannchuidiú le sláinte an duine a chosaint agus dramhthrealamh TLL a aisghabháil agus a dhiúscairt ar bhealach atá slán ó thaobh an chomhshaoil de tríd an srian a chur ar shubstaintí guaiseacha a úsáid in TLL, a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach ós rud é go bhféadfadh neamhréir idir na dlíthe nó na bearta riaracháin a ghlacann na Ballstáit baic ar thrádáil agus saobhadh iomaíochta a chruthú san Aontas agus tionchar díreach a imirt dá réir sin ar an margadh inmheánach agus, de bharr mhéid na faidhbe agus na n-impleachtaí i ndáil le reachtaíocht eile de chuid an Aontais maidir le haisghabháil agus diúscairt dramhaíola agus réimsí comhleasa, amhail sláinte an duine a chosaint, 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.