Since the general objectives of this Regulation, namely to complement, support and add value to the policies of the Member States to improve the health of the population in the Union and reduce health inequalities by promoting health, encouraging innovation in health, increasing the sustainability of health systems, and protecting Union citizens from serious cross-border health threats, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale and effects of this Regulation, 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 cuspóirí ginearálta an Rialacháin seo, eadhon tacú le bearta an Aontais chun sláinte dhaonra an Aontais a fheabhsú agus luach a chur leis na bearta sin, neamhionannais sláinte a laghdú tríd an tsláinte a chur chun cinn agus an nuálaíocht a spreagadh i réimse na sláinte, inbhuanaitheacht na gcóras sláinte a mhéadú agus saoránaigh an Aontais a chosaint ar bhagairtí tromchúiseacha trasteorann, a bhaint amach go leordhóthanach ag na Ballstáit ach gur fearr, ar bhonn scála agus iarmhairtí an Rialacháin seo, is féidir 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 an Aontas Eorpach é.