Since the objective of this Regulation, namely to ensure that PPE on the market fulfils the requirements providing for a high level of protection of health and safety of users, whilst 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 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 TCP atá ar an margadh na ceanglais lena bhforáiltear d'ardleibhéal cosanta sláinte agus sábháilteachta úsáideoirí, a bhaint amach go leordhóthanach, agus feidhmiú an mhargaidh inmheánaigh á ráthú leis, agus gur fearr, dá bhrí sin, de bharr fhairsinge agus iarmhairtí an Rialacháin, é a bhaint amach ar leibhéal an Aontais, féadfaidh an tAontas bearta a ghlacadh, i gcomhréir le prionsabal na coimhdeachta mar atá leagtha amach in Airteagal 5 den Chonradh ar an Aontas Eorpach.