Since the objective of this Regulation, namely to ensure that appliances and fittings on the Union market fulfil the requirements providing for a high level of protection of health and safety of persons, of domestic animals and of property and for rational use of energy, while guaranteeing the functioning of the internal market, 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 an Rialacháin seo, eadhon a áirithiú go gcomhlíonann fearais agus feistis ar mhargadh an Aontais na ceanglais lena ndéantar foráil maidir le hardleibhéal cosanta sláinte agus sábháilteachta daoine, ainmhithe clóis agus maoine agus maidir le húsáid réasúnach fuinnimh a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach, agus feidhmiú an mhargaidh inmheánaigh á ráthú, ach gur féidir, de bharr a fhairsinge agus a éifeachtaí, é a ghnóthú níos fearr 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.