Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to ensure the consistent implementation of the regulatory framework for electronic communications, in particular in relation to cross-border aspects and through efficient internal market procedures for draft national measures, and to ensure that consumers are not charged excessive prices for making number-based interpersonal communications originating in the Member State of the consumer’s domestic provider and terminating at any fixed or mobile number in another Member State, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale and effects of the action, be better achieved at the level of the Union, 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 an Rialacháin seo, eadhon cur chun feidhme comhsheasmhach an chreata rialála do chumarsáid leictreonach a áirithiú go háirithe i dtaca le gnéithe trasteorann agus trí bhíthin nósanna imeachta éifeachtúla an mhargaidh inmheánaigh le haghaidh dréachtbhearta náisiúnta, agus a áirithiú nach ndéantar praghsanna iomarcacha a ghearradh ar thomhaltóirí as cumarsáid idirphearsanta uimhirbhunaithe a dhéanamh de thionscnamh Bhallstát sholáthraí baile an tomhaltóra agus a chríochnaíonn ag aon uimhir líne thalún nó fón póca i mBallstát eile, ós rud é nach féidir leis na Ballstáit na cuspóirí sin a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach ach gur fearr is féidir, de bharr fhairsinge agus éifeachtaí na gníomhaíochta, 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.