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Article L213-9 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Contracts for the issue of the bonds referred to in article L. 213-8 may stipulate that they are redeemable only at the issuer’s initiative or at a maturity conditional on the accumulation, since the date of issue, of surpluses exceeding the nominal amount of the issue, net of any deficits accumulated during the same period.

These bonds constitute last-ranking debt instruments, issued in registered form, and are only redeemable after a minimum period of seven years. They are known as titres associatifs.

If several issues of non-voting shares are made simultaneously, the condition relating to the constitution of sufficient surpluses mentioned in the first paragraph is applied in chronological order.

Net surpluses not allocated to the redemption of a non-voting security may be carried forward to non-voting securities not yet redeemed.

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Article L213-9

Les contrats d’émission d’obligations mentionnées à l’article L. 213-8 peuvent prévoir que celles-ci ne sont remboursables qu’à l’initiative de l’émetteur ou à une échéance conditionnée à la constitution, depuis la date de l’émission, d’excédents dépassant le montant nominal de l’émission, nets des éventuels déficits constitués durant la même période.

Ces obligations constituent alors des créances de dernier rang, émises sous forme nominative, et ne sont remboursables qu’à l’issue d’un délai minimal de sept ans. Elles prennent la dénomination de titres associatifs.

Si plusieurs émissions de titres associatifs coexistent, l’application de la condition relative à la constitution d’excédents suffisants mentionnée au premier alinéa se fait suivant leur ordre chronologique.

Les excédents nets non affectés au remboursement d’un titre associatif sont reportables aux titres associatifs non encore remboursés.

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