Article 61. Reserved contracts.

1. Contracting authorities and granting bodies may reserve the right to participate in procurement and concession procedures or may reserve their execution to economic operators and social cooperatives and their consortia whose main purpose is the social and professional integration of persons with disabilities or disadvantaged persons, or may reserve its execution in the context of protected employment programs when at least 30 percent of the workers of the aforementioned economic operators are made up of workers with disabilities or disadvantaged workers. 2. The contracting authorities and granting bodies provide in the tender notices, notices and invitations, as necessary requirements or as additional reward requirements for the offer, mechanisms and tools suitable for achieving equal generational, gender and employment inclusion opportunities for disabled or disadvantaged people . 3. The tender notice or the prior information notice expressly acknowledges that it is a reserved contract or concession. 4. Upon first application of the code, Annex II.3 provides reward mechanisms and tools to achieve equal generational and gender opportunities and to promote the employment inclusion of disabled people. Persons with disabilities are considered to be those referred to in article 1 of law no. 12 March 1999. 68, disadvantaged people, those provided for by article 4 of law 8 November 1991, n. 381, former patients of psychiatric hospitals, including judicial ones, subjects undergoing psychiatric treatment, drug addicts, alcoholics, minors of working age in situations of family difficulty, people detained or interned in penitentiary institutions, convicted prisoners and admitted internees to alternative measures to detention and outside work pursuant to article 21 of law 26 July 1975, n. 354. 5. Annex II.3 is repealed from the date of entry into force of a corresponding regulation adopted pursuant to article 17, paragraph 3, of law no. 23 August 1988. 400, by decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the delegated authorities for equal opportunities and disabilities, in agreement with the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, who fully replaces him also as an attachment to the code. EFFECTIVE: July 1, 2023