Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to ensure the smooth functioning of the internal market as regards medical devices and to ensure high standards of quality and safety for medical devices, thus ensuring a high level of protection of health and safety of patients, users and other persons, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of its scale and effects, 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 an Rialacháin seo, mar atá a áirithiú go bhfeidhmeoidh an margadh inmheánach go rianúil a mhéid a bhaineann le feistí leighis agus go mbeidh caighdeáin arda cáilíochta agus sábháilteachta ag feistí leighis, agus dá bharr sin go mbeidh ardleibhéal cosanta sláinte agus sábháilteachta othar, úsaideoiríagus daoine eile ann, a bhaint amach go leordhóthanach agus gur fearr is féidir, de bharr fhairsinge an Rialacháin agus na n-éifeachtaí atá leis, iad a bhaint amach ar leibhéal an Aontais, féadfaidh an tAontas bearta a ghlacadh, i gcomhréir le prionsabal na coimhdeachta mar a leagtar amach in Airteagal 5 den Chonradh ar Fheidhmiú an Aontais Eorpaigh.