Reflexión sobre las sociedades mercantiles públicas y los convenios de colaboración

The proliferation of public limited companies and collaboration agreements in recent years has raised doubts as to whether the Administration uses these figures to avoid public laws controls and guarantees. In the faced of the dangers that have been point out, mainly by legal doctrine, legal reforms have been adopted to strengthen caution, fostering a return to the public law, but the regulation is still problematic today. In this article I will seek to analyze this situation, in particular in relation to state owned companys, and I will try to identify some of the current existing problems. There are not many court rulings on the matter, but some judgments recently have recently been issued delivered that need to be highlighted.