31That assessment is justified, inter alia, by the fact that the principle that the subject matter of an action is delimited by the parties, as well as the principle of ne ultra petita, according to which the court cannot rule beyond the pleadings of the parties — principles to which the Hungarian Government also referred during the hearing — risk being disregarded if national courts were required, under Directive 93/13, to ignore or exceed the limitations of the subject matter of the dispute established by the forms of order sought and the pleas in law of the parties, as the Advocate General also stated, in essence, in points 43 and 51 of his Opinion.
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