The Governing Council has accomplished certain things, it needs to accomplish a lot more, and it needs to be doing executive functions, it needs to be organizing the constitutionalprogress, it needs to be organizing the electoral process.
Debathification reversal has become stuck, essentially, and the constitutional review has made progress, but is stuck now on the key questions that divide the Kurds from other Iraqis.
By placing a time limit on the suspension, the EU is hoping to continue applying pressure for progress to be sustained, which could possibly include constitutional change.