41Moreover, it must be borne in mind that, according to settled case-law, the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations may not be relied upon by an undertaking which has committed a manifest infringement of the rules in force (Case C-96/89 Commission v Netherlands [1991] ECR I-2461, paragraph 30). Accordingly, as the Advocate General correctly observed in point 112 of his Opinion, an undertaking which deliberately engages in anticompetitive conduct therefore has no right to allege a breach of that principle on the pretext that the Commission did not clearly inform it that its conduct constituted an infringement.
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