La presencia de la Administración Pública en carteles privados: la regulación administrativo-colusoria

The increasing complexity of the legal order provokes cases of inconsistency between Administrative law and Competition Law. We analize the case of the Sherry Wine cartels where mesures of sectorial regulation incur in the creation of a price cartel. This conduct is fined by competition authorities and judicial review of CNC Resolution restores the preference of the principle of protection of legitimate expectations of cartel participants who believe in the law-abiding nature of their conduct.