Là encore il est bien connu que ces limites ont été introduites à Amsterdam de peur d’une surcharge de travail de la Cour qui allongerait davantage les délais déjà assez longs surtout en matière de interprétation préjudicielle.
It is well known that these limits were adopted in Amsterdam out of a fear of imposing an excessive workload on the Court which would further increase the time taken to transact the Court's business, which was already quite long, particularly where requests for preliminary judicial rulings on the interpretation of the law were concerned.