Since the objectives of this Regulation cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, but can rather, by reason of the transnational scale of money laundering and terrorist financing, and the specificities of the internal market and its fundamental freedoms, which can only be fully implemented by ensuring that no excessively disparate treatment based on national legislation is imposed on cash crossing the external borders of the Union, 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 (TEU).
Ós rud é nach féidir leis na Ballstáit cuspóirí an Rialacháin seo a ghnóthú go leordhóthanach, ach gur fearr, de bharr scála trasnáisiúnta an sciúrtha airgid agus mhaoiniú na sceimhlitheoireachta, agus de bharr shainiúlachtaí an mhargaidh inmheánaigh agus a shaoirsí bunúsacha, nach féidir a chur chun feidhme go hiomlán ach trína áirithiú nach bhforchuirtear aon chóireáil an-difriúil atá bunaithe ar reachtaíocht náisiúnta ar airgead tirim a thrasnaíonn teorainneacha seachtracha an Aontais, 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 (CAE).