Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to ensure the efficient delivery of consistent hazard and risk assessments of chemicals where those assessments are required by Union legal acts, in order to achieve a high level of protection of human health and the environment, enable the development and use of safe and sustainable chemicals, ensure the proper functioning of the single market for chemicals, improve the Union’s citizens’ knowledge about, and trust in, the scientific basis for decisions taken under Union legal acts on chemicals, and to contribute to the replacement and reduction of animal testing wherever possible, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States as Member States do not hold the data within the scope of this Regulation and cannot establish a Union-wide common data platform, but can rather, by reason of chemicals data and information being held at Union level by the Agencies, 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 Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
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