Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to establish rules on veterinary medicinal products ensuring the protection of human and animal health and the environment as well as the functioning of the internal market, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, but can rather, by reason of its 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, eadhon rialacha a bhunú maidir le táirgí íocshláinte tréidliachta lena n-áireofar go gcosnófar sláinte phoiblí agus sláinte ainmhithe agus an comhshaol, chomh maith le feidhmiú an mhargaidh inmheánaigh, a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach agus, de bharr a éifeachtaí, 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.