A UV-curable composition for coating or printing on a substrate and/or a substrate surface includes at least one monofunctional acrylate monomer/methacrylate monomer having a substituted or unsubstituted monocycloaliphatic hydrocarbon radical, at least one vinyl monomer having a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic radical, where the heterocyclic radical has at least one ring-forming nitrogen atom, at least one monofunctional acrylate monomer/methacrylate monomer having a substituted or unsubstituted bicyclic, nonaromatic hydrocarbon radical and at least one photoinitiator, wherein the UV-curable composition is free of at least one monofunctional acrylate monomer/methacrylate monomer having a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic, nonaromatic radical.