A company that has issued non-voting preference shares is prohibited from amortising its capital.
Repayments made prior to the full redemption or cancellation of the non-voting preference shares may be cancelled.
In the event of a capital reduction not due to losses, non-voting preference shares shall, before ordinary shares, be purchased under the conditions provided for in the last two paragraphs of Article L. 228-35-10 and cancelled. Any purchase of ordinary shares that does not comply with this paragraph may be cancelled.
However, these provisions do not apply to capital reductions carried out under article L. 22-10-62. In this case, the provisions of Article L. 225-99 do not apply if the shares were acquired on a regulated market.
Non-voting preferred dividend shares have, in proportion to their nominal amount, the same rights as other shares to reserves distributed during the company’s existence.