Not later than 48 days after the award of a concession contract, contracting authorities and utilities shall send a concession award notice for publication in accordance with regulation 33.

But concession award notices for social and other specific services listed in Schedule 3 may be grouped for publication on a quarterly basis, in which case the contracting authority or utility shall send the grouped notices for publication within 48 days of the end of each quarter.

A concession award notice shall contain the information set out in Annex VII to the Concessions Directive, or in the case of a concession contract for social and other specific services listed in Schedule 3, the information set out in Annex VIII to that Directive.