62It must be recalled that the limitation period laid down in Article 46 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union has the function, first, 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, second, of preventing the aggrieved person from being able to delay indefinitely the exercise of his or her right to damages. That period thus definitively protects the aggrieved person and the person responsible for the harm (see, to that effect, judgments of 8 November 2012, Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission, C‑469/11 P, EU:C:2012:705, paragraphs 33 and 53 and the case-law cited, and of 10 September 2019, HTTS v Council, C‑123/18 P, EU:C:2019:694, paragraph 49).
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