Since the objective of this Directive, namely to improve access in the Union to works and other subject matter protected by copyright and related rights for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled, 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 cuspóir na Treorach seo eadhon feabhas a chur ar rochtain san Aontas ar shaothair agus ar ábhar eile atá cosanta ag cóipcheart agus ag cearta gaolmhara do dhaoine dalla, do dhaoine lagamhairc, nó do dhaoine atá faoi mhíchumas léitheoireachta cló ar bhealach eile, a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach agus, de bharr a fairsinge agus a héifeachtaí, 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.