Recital 23

(23)The objective of the proposed action, namely to combat the three major communicable diseases within the context of poverty reduction, with particular reference to developing countries, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale and effects of the proposed action, be better achieved at a Community level, in accordance with the principles of subsidiarity set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality also set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary, in order to achieve that objective,