Regulation 74. Reserved concessions

(1) Contracting authorities may reserve the right to participate in concession award procedures to sheltered workshops and economic operators whose main aim is the social and professional integration of disabled or disadvantaged persons or may provide for such concessions to be performed in the context of sheltered employment programmes, provided that at least thirty per cent of the employees of those workshops, economic operators or programmes are disabled or disadvantaged workers.

(2) In case of tenders with an estimated value which exceeds the threshold established under Schedule 3, the concession notice or, in the case of services concessions as defined in regulation 9(2), prior information notice shall make reference to this regulation.