Recital 110

Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to empower natural persons by providing them with increased control over their personal electronic health data and supporting their freedom of movement by ensuring that their health data follow them, to foster a genuine internal market for digital health services and products and to ensure a consistent and efficient framework for the reuse of natural persons’ health data for research, innovation, policymaking and regulatory activities, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States through coordination measures alone, as shown by the evaluation of the digital aspects of Directive 2011/24/EU, but can rather, by reason of harmonising measures for rights of natural persons in relation to their electronic health data, interoperability of electronic health data and a common framework and safeguards for the primary use and secondary use, 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.