Since the objective of this Directive, namely the protection of the financial system by means of prevention, detection and investigation of money laundering and terrorist financing, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, as individual measures adopted by Member States to protect their financial systems could be inconsistent with the functioning of the internal market and with the prescriptions of the rule of law and Union public policy, but can rather, by reason of the scale and effects of the action, 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 cuspóir na Treorach seo, eadhon cosaint an chórais airgeadais trí sciúradh airgid agus maoiniú sceimhlitheoireachta a chosc, a bhrath agus a imscrúdú, a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach, óir d’fhéadfadh bearta aonair arna nglacadh ag na Ballstáit chun a gcórais airgeadais a chosaint a bheith ar neamhréir le feidhmiú an mhargaidh inmheánaigh agus le saintreoracha an smachta reachta agus beartas poiblí an Aontais, agus, de bharr fhairsinge agus éifeachtaí na gníomhaíochta, 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.