24.—(1) Contracting authorities and utilities may—
(a)reserve the right to participate in concession contract award procedures to sheltered workshops and economic operators whose main aim is the social and professional integration of disabled or disadvantaged persons, or
(b)provide for such concession contracts to be performed in the context of sheltered employment programmes,
provided that at least 30% of the employees of those workshops, economic operators or programmes are disabled or disadvantaged workers.
(2) In such cases, the concession notice or, in the case of a concession contract for social and other specific services listed in Schedule 3, the prior information notice, shall make reference to Article 24 of the Concessions Directive.
25. These Regulations apply to services concession contracts for research and development services which are covered by CPV codes 73000000-2 to 73120000-9, 73300000-5, 73420000-2 and 73430000-5 only if—
(a)the benefits accrue exclusively to the contracting authority or utility for its use in the conduct of its own affairs; and
(b)the service provided is wholly remunerated by the contracting authority or utility.