Since the overall objective of this Directive, namely to ensure the effectiveness of the requirements of Directive 2009/38/EC regarding the information and consultation of employees of Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the inherently transnational nature and scale of those requirements, 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. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective,
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