53Furthermore, the limitation period laid down in the first paragraph of Article 46 of the Statute of the Court of Justice has the function, inter alia, firstly, of ensuring protection of the rights of the aggrieved person, who must have sufficient time in which to gather the appropriate information with a view to a possible action, and, secondly, of preventing the aggrieved person from being able to delay indefinitely the exercise of his right to damages. That period thus definitively protects the aggrieved person and the person responsible for the harm.
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