Ker države članice ne morejo v celoti doseči ciljev predlaganih ukrepov in sicer ne morejo določiti skupne ravni univerzalne storitve v telekomunikacijah za vse evropske uporabnike in uskladiti pogojev za dostop do javnih telefonskih omrežij na fiksni lokaciji in njihove uporabe ter pripadajočih javno dostopnih telefonskih storitev, niti doseči usklajenega regulativnega okvira za elektronske komunikacijske storitve, elektronska komunikacijska omrežja in pripadajoče naprave, in ker se lahko ti cilji zaradi obsega učinkov bolje dosežejo na ravni Skupnosti, lahko Skupnost sprejme ukrepe v skladu z načeli subsidiarnosti, kot je določeno v členu 5 Pogodbe.
Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely setting a common level of universal service for telecommunications for all European users and of harmonising conditions for access to and use of public telephone networks at a fixed location and related publicly available telephone services and also achieving a harmonised framework for the regulation of electronic communications services, electronic communications networks and associated facilities, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore by reason of the scale or effects of the action be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principles of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.