Translate the following English sentence to French:
"As you will have seen, these two committees attempted to fence in the Commission, so to speak, and place greater restrictions on it, calling upon it to conclude the operation six months earlier and to submit progress reports earlier in the process than proposed."
Comme vous l'aurez constaté, ces deux commissions fixaient des limites plus strictes à la Commission : elles lui demandaient de terminer les travaux six mois avant, de nous présenter des rapports sur l'évolution de la question à des dates plus rapprochées.