Extrajudicial settlement between the National Economic Prosecutor and market agents are analyzed. These settlements must be approved by the Court of Defence of Free Competition. The objective of this article is to demonstrate the nature of this mechanism to protect the free competition. This mech considered the elements that characterize this form of protection, especially, that there is no pronouncement on the substance of public law that consists of the action. As these are provisional measures, their content can be changed by going to the court that approved them anism is a manifestation of protective guardianship, and therefore all its effects must be.Se analizan los acuerdos extrajudiciales que suscribe la Fiscalía Nacional Económica con agentes del mercado y cuya aprobación debe dar el Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia. El objetivo de la investigación es demostrar la naturaleza cautelar autónoma que tiene este instrumento. Al ser concebidos de esa forma se explica de mejor forma una serie de problemas que surgen después de que el Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia le da su aprobación “sin forma de juicio”, esto es, sin emitir un pronunciamiento sobre el fondo de una acción deducida. Al tratarse de medidas provisionales, su contenido se puede cambiar acudiendo al tribunal que las aprobó.