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.