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Title: ABBOTT LABORATORIES 401(K) SUPPLEMENTAL PLAN
Date: 2/20/2009
Industry: Major Drugs     Sector: Healthcare

ABBOTT LABORATORIES 401(K) SUPPLEMENTAL PLAN, Parties: abbott laboratories
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Exhibit 10.2

 

Amended and Restated effective

January 1, 2008

 

ABBOTT LABORATORIES 401(K) SUPPLEMENTAL PLAN

 

SECTION 1

INTRODUCTION

 

1-1.           PURPOSE.  This Abbott Laboratories 401(k) Supplemental Plan (the “Plan”) is being established by Abbott Laboratories (“Abbott”) to provide eligible management employees of Abbott an opportunity to accumulate capital for their retirement or other termination of employment in excess of the contributions allowed under the Abbott Laboratories Stock Retirement Plan (“Stock Plan”).

 

1-2.           EFFECTIVE DATE; GRANDFATHERED AMOUNTS.  The Plan became effective as of October 1, 1993 and is hereby amended and restated, effective as of January 1, 2008, in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A (“Code Section 409A”) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).  Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, any amounts under the Plan that were earned and vested before January 1, 2005 (as determined in accordance with Code Section 409A) with respect to participants who retired before January 1, 2005 (“Grandfathered Amounts”) shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan as administered and as in effect on December 31, 2004, provided that the provisions of the Plan, as amended effective December 9, 2005 in accordance with Code Section 409A, shall also apply to Grandfathered Amounts.  Except as expressly provided above or elsewhere herein, amendments made to the Plan pursuant to this amendment and restatement or otherwise shall not affect the Grandfathered Amounts.  The terms and conditions applicable to the Grandfathered Amounts are set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

1-3.           ADMINISTRATION.  The Plan shall be administered by the Compensation Committee (the “Committee”) appointed by the Board of Directors of Abbott (the “Board of Directors”).

 

SECTION 2

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

 

2-1.           PERSONS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE.  Participation in the Plan shall be limited to employees who are serving as corporate officers of Abbott as of October 1, 1993 or who become corporate officers thereafter. The term “corporate officer” for purposes of the Plan shall mean an individual elected an officer of Abbott by its Board of Directors (or designated as such for purposes of the Plan by the Committee), but shall not include assistant officers. In the event an employee should cease to be a corporate officer of Abbott due to demotion or otherwise while remaining in the employ of Abbott, (a) such employee’s elective deferral in effect for such year shall remain irrevocable, (b) Abbott’s matching contributions under Section 4 shall immediately cease and (c) such employee shall no longer be eligible to participate in the Plan as of the end of such calendar year.  In the event an employee should cease to be a corporate officer of Abbott due to termination of employment, such employee shall cease to be eligible to

 



 

participate in the Plan and any contributions then being made on behalf of such employee shall immediately cease.

 

2-2.           PARTICIPANT.  An eligible employee may elect to participate in the Plan by electing to have contributions made on the employee’s behalf as provided in Section 5.

 

SECTION 3

EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS

 

3-1.           ALLOWABLE CONTRIBUTIONS.  An eligible employee may elect to have his employer make “pre-tax contributions” on his behalf in an amount not greater than 18% in total of his compensation in any calendar year for services rendered to his employer. A pre-tax contribution made by an employer on behalf of a participant shall reduce the participant’s compensation at the time of payment of such compensation. Each election hereunder shall be in writing, and shall be in multiples of 1% of compensation.

 

3-2.           COMPENSATION.  A participant’s “compensation” shall have the same meaning as that term is used in subsection 7-2 of the Stock Plan.

 

3-3.           MAXIMUM EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS.  Notwithstanding subsection 3-1, in no event shall the sum of:

 

(a)            the participant’s total contributions, pre-tax contributions, supplemental deposits and supplemental pre-tax contributions made under the Stock Plan; plus

 

(b)            the participant’s total pre-tax contributions made under the Plan;

 

for any calendar year, exceed 18% of the employee’s compensation for such year.  In the event the limitation described in this subsection 3-3 would be exceeded for any participant, the participant’s pre-tax contributions made under this Plan shall be reduced until the limit is not exceeded.

 

3-4.           CHANGE IN STOCK PLAN.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Sections 3-1 and 3-3 above, no action or inaction by an employee under the Stock Plan may result in a change in amounts contributed to the Plan in excess of the limit with respect to elective deferrals under Section 402(g)(1)(A), (B) and (C) of the Code in effect for the year in which the action or inaction occurs.

 

SECTION 4

EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS

 

For the calendar year ending December 31, 1993, and for each subsequent calendar year, Abbott shall make a contribution on behalf of each participant in the Plan who makes pre-tax contributions (“basic contributions”) under the Plan during such year at the rate of two percent (2%) of compensation in excess of, for calendar year 1993, Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000), and for calendar years subsequent to 1993, the limit in effect for such year under Code Section 40l(a)(17). Such employer contribution shall be in an amount equal to the contribution the participant would have received under subsection 8-3 of the Stock Plan with

 

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respect to such basic contributions had such basic contributions been made under subsection 7-1 of the Stock Plan.

 

To the extent applicable, a contribution made by a participant under subsection 5-4 shall be considered a basic contribution for purposes of this Section 4 to the extent it includes contributions at the rate of two percent (2%) of compensation for 1993 in excess of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000).

 

SECTION 5

ELECTIONS

 

5-1.           ANNUAL ELECTIONS REQUIRED.  Except as provided in Section 5-3, a participant shall elect to make pre-tax contributions with respect to compensation earned in any calendar year on or prior to December 31 st  of the prior calendar year.  Each such election shall be in writing, shall be filed with the Committee, shall be effective only for the calendar year for which made and shall be irrevocable.  An employee who fails to make a timely election under this subsection 5-1 for a calendar year may not contribute to the Plan during the following year.

 

5-2.           [Section intentionally omitted.]

 

5-3.           NEWLY ELIGIBLE AND NEWLY HIRED EMPLOYEES.  A newly hired corporate officer described in Section 2-1 shall become eligible to participate in the Plan on the first day of the month next following the month after the individual’s date of hire; provided , that in no event may such individual begin to participate in the Plan later than 90 days following his or her date of hire.  An eligible employee described in the preceding sentence (who was not eligible to participate in any other plan that would be aggregated with the Plan under Treasury Regulation §1.409A-1(c)) shall make the election described in Section 5-1 within thirty (30) days of the date on which he first becomes eligible under the Plan.  Any such election shall become effective for compensation earned no earlier than the first payroll period commencing after receipt of the election by the Committee and shall be irrevocable for the remainder of the calendar year.  Any other newly eligible employee shall make the election described in Section 5-1 no later than December 31 st  of the year in which such employee first becomes eligible under the Plan.  Any such election shall become effective for compensation earned in the calendar year following the year in which the election is made.

 

5-4.           SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION FOR 1993.  Employees who are serving as corporate officers of Abbott and who have established “Grantor Trusts” under the 1986 Abbott Laboratories Management Incentive Plan (“MIP”) as of October 1, 1993, may elect to make a lump-sum contribution based on compensation earned during the period of January 1, 1993 through September 30, 1993 (the “Make-Up Period”) by filing an election with the Administrator and tendering payment in cash to such Grantor Trust of the amount of the contribution, not later than October 31, 1993.  Any such contribution shall not exceed the maximum contribution allowed under subsection 3-3 based on the employee’s Stock Plan contributions made, and compensation earned, during the Make-Up Period.

 

5-5.           GRANTOR TRUST ELECTION.  At the time of the annual elections described in subsection 5-1, each participant may elect to have his pre-tax and employer contributions for the following year deposited in a “Grantor Trust” established by the participant under the

 

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circumstances and on the terms described in subsection 6-1, rather than defer such contributions under subsection 5-1.  Any such election shall be irrevocable and shall apply to all pre-tax contributions made during, and employer contributions made for, such calendar year on behalf of such participant.  If the participant fails to make an election under this subsection 5-5, the participant’s pre-tax contributions made during, and employer contribution made for, such calendar year shall be retained by Abbott and shall not be deposited in a Grantor Trust in the future.  In no event shall such contributions be paid to the Grantor Trust later than the last day of the “applicable 2 ½ month period”, as such term is defined in Treasury Regulation § 1.409A-1(b)(4)(i)(A).

 

SECTION 6

FUNDING EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS

 

6-1.           CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE DEPOSITED IN GRANTOR TRUSTS.  Each participant’s pre-tax contributions and employer contributions which the participant has filed an election under subsection 5-5 shall be deposited in a “Grantor Trust” established by the participant, as described in subsection 6-3, provided such trust is in a form which the Committee determines is substantially similar to the trust attached to this Plan as Exhibit B.

 

6-2.           CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE RETAINED BY ABBOTT.  Each participant’s pre-tax contributions and employer contributions for which the participant has not filed an election under subsection 5-5 shall be retained by Abbott and credited to a Deferred Account established under subsection 7-1.

 

6-3.           AFTER ESTABLISHMENT OF GRANTOR TRUST.  After a Grantor Trust has been established by a participant under subsection 6-1, all pre-tax contributions and employer contributions made thereafter for which the participant has filed an election under subsection 5-5, shall be deposited in such Grantor Trust (less the aggregate federal, state and local individual income and employment taxes (determined under subsection 8-5) attributable to such contributions). Such deposits shall be made as soon as practicable after the last complete payroll period of the calendar quarter in which the contributions are made.  The appropriate aggregate federal, state and local individual income and employment taxes attributable to the contributions shall be paid directly to the participant.  In no event shall such contributions be paid to the Grantor Trust or the participant later than the last day of the “applicable 2 ½ month period”, as such term is defined in Treasury Regulation § 1.409A-1(b)(4)(i)(A).

 

6-4.           [Section intentionally omitted.]

 

6-5.           ELIMINATION OF GRANTOR TRUST FUNDING THRESHOLD.  Notwithstanding anything contained in the Plan to the contrary, effective as of January 1, 2005, the Grantor Trust established by the participant shall be funded in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

6-6.           UTILIZATION OF TRANSITION RELIEF UNDER SECTION 409A OF THE CODE.  Notwithstanding anything contained in the Plan to the contrary, pursuant to Q&A-20 of Internal Revenue Service Notice 2005-1 (the “Notice”), Abbott shall cause the amount of all pre-tax and employer contributions and all associated earnings, including guaranteed rate payments, for the periods ended on or prior to December 31, 2005 for each participant who has made a

 

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Grantor Trust election under subsection 5-5, to the extent not previously contributed to a Grantor Trust established by the participant, to be deposited in such Grantor Trust on or prior to December 31, 2005.  Such contribution is intended to result in a partial termination of participation in the Plan as permitted by the Notice.  Each participant who has established a Grantor Trust and who receives such contribution shall include the full amount of such Grantor Trust contribution in the participant’s income in 2005.

 

SECTION 7

ACCOUNTING

 

7-1.           SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.  The Committee shall establish accounts for participants who have made elections pursuant to subsection 5-1 or 5-5 as follows:

 

(a)            The Committee shall maintain a “Deferred Account” in the name of each participant who has elected to defer payment of all or a portion of his or her pre-tax contributions under subsection 5-1.  The Deferred Account shall be comprised of any pre-tax contributions made on behalf of the participant under subsection 3-1 and any other allocations made on behalf of the participant under Section 4, in each case, for which the participant has not made an election under subsection 5-5, and any adjustments made pursuant to subsection 7-2.

 

(b)            The Committee shall maintain two separate Accounts, a “Pre-Tax Account” and an “After-Tax Account”, in the name of each participant who has declined to defer allocations by electing to have a portion of his or her pre-tax and employer contributions deposited in cash to a Grantor Trust according to subsection 5-5.  The Pre-Tax Account shall consist of the aggregate of all pre-tax contributions contemplated by subsection 3-1, whether deposited to the participant’s Grantor Trust or made in cash to the participant, and any adjustments in accordance with subsection 7-3.  The After-Tax Account shall consist of employer contributions deposited to the participant’s Grantor Trust in cash according to subsection 5-5 and any adjustments made in accordance with subsection 7-4.

 

7-2.           ADJUSTMENT OF DEFERRED ACCOUNTS.  No later than as of the end of each calendar year, each participant’s Deferred Account shall be adjusted by the Committee as follows:

 

(a)            FIRST, reduced by an amount equal to any distribution made to the participant during that year pursuant to subsections 7-11 or 7-12;

 

(b)            NEXT, increased by an amount equal to any pre-tax contributions and employer contributions made on behalf of such participant for that year for which the participant has not made an election under subsection 5-5; and

 

(c)            FINALLY, increased by an amount equal to the Interest earned for that year pursuant to subsection 7-5.

 

7-3.           ADJUSTMENT OF PRE-TAX ACCOUNTS.  No later than as of the end of each calendar year, each participant’s Pre-Tax Account shall be adjusted by the Committee as follows:

 

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(a)            FIRST, reduced, in any year in which the participant is entitled to receive a distribution from his or her Grantor Trust, by an amount equal to the distribution that would have been made to the participant if the aggregate amounts allocated according to subsection 5-5 had instead been deferred under subsection 5-1;

 

(b)            NEXT, increased by an amount equal to any pre-tax contributions and employer contributions made on behalf of the participant for that year that are paid to the participant (including any contributions paid to the participant’s Grantor Trust) according to subsection 5-5;

 

(c)            FINALLY, increased by an amount equal to the Interest earned for that year pursuant to subsection 7-5.

 

7-4.           ADJUSTMENT OF AFTER-TAX ACCOUNTS.  No later than as of the end of each calendar year, each participant’s After-Tax Account shall be adjusted by the Committee as follows:

 

(a)            FIRST, reduced, in any year in which the participant is in receipt of a benefit distribution from his or her Grantor Trust, by an amount calculated as provided by subsection 7-16 which represents the distribution for such year;

 

(b)            NEXT, increased by an amount equal to any pre-tax contributions and employer contributions made on behalf of the participant for that year that are deposited in the participant’s Grantor Trust according to subsection 5-5;

 

(c)            FINALLY, increased by an amount equal to the After-Tax Interest earned for that year pursuant to subsection 7-5.

 

7-5.           INTEREST ACCRUALS ON ACCOUNTS.

 

(a)            No later than as of the end of each calendar year, a participant’s Deferred Account or Pre-Tax Account, as applicable, shall be credited with interest (“Interest”) at the following rate:

 

(i)     the average of the “prime rate” of interest published by the Wall Street Journal (Mid-West Edition) or comparable successor quotation service on the first business day of January and the last business day of each month of the calendar year; plus

 

(ii)    two hundred twenty-five (225) basis points.

 

(b)            No later than as of the end of each calendar year, a participant’s After-Tax Account shall be credited with the amount of Interest set forth above, multiplied by the aggregate of the federal, state and local individual income tax rates determined in accordance with subsection 8-5 (the “After-Tax Interest”).

 

(c)            The Interest and After-Tax Interest, as applicable, shall be credited on the conditions established by the Committee.

 

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7-6.           GUARANTEED RATE PAYMENTS.  In addition to any employer contribution made on behalf of a participant for any calendar year pursuant to section 4, Abbott shall also make a payment to a participant’s Grantor Trust (a “Guaranteed Rate Payment”) for each year in which the Grantor Trust is in effect.  The Guaranteed Payment shall equal the excess, if any, of  the participant’s “Net Interest Accrual” (as defined below) over the net earnings of the participant’s Grantor Trust for the year, and shall be paid within the thirty (30) days beginning April 1 of the following calendar year. A participant’s Net Interest Accrual for a year is an amount equal to: the After-Tax Interest credited to the participant’s After-Tax Account for that year in accordance with subsection 7-5.

 

7-7.           GRANTOR TRUST ASSETS.  Each participant’s Grantor Trust assets shall be invested solely in the instruments specified by investment guidelines established by the Committee.  Such investment guidelines, once established, may be changed by the Committee, provided that any change shall not take effect until the year following the year in which the change is made and provided further that the instruments specified shall be consistent with the provisions of Section 3(b) of the form of Grantor Trust attached hereto as Attachment A.

 

7-8.           DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARIES.  Subject to the conditions and limitations set forth below, each participant, and after a participant’s death, each primary beneficiary designated by a participant in accordance with the provisions of this subsection 7-6, shall have the right from time to time to designate a primary beneficiary or beneficiaries and, successive or contingent beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive unpaid amounts from the participant’s Deferred Account under the Plan.  Beneficiaries may be a natural person or persons or a fiduciary, such as a trustee of a trust or the legal representative of an estate.  Any such designation shall take effect upon the death of the participant or such beneficiary, as the case may be, or in the case of any fiduciary beneficiary, upon the termination of all of its duties (other than the duty to dispose of the right to receive amounts remaining to be paid under the Plan).  The conditions and limitations relating to the designation of beneficiaries are as follows:

 

(a)            A nonfiduciary beneficiary shall have the right to designate a further beneficiary or beneficiaries only if the original participant or the next preceding primary beneficiary, as the case may be, shall have expressly so provided in writing; and

 

(b)            A fiduciary beneficiary shall designate as a further beneficiary or beneficiaries only those persons or other fiduciaries who are entitled to receive the amounts payable from the participant’s account under the trust or estate of which it is a fiduciary.

 

Any beneficiary designation or grant of any power to any beneficiary under this subsection may be exercised only by an instrument in writing, executed by the person making the designation or granting such power and filed with the Secretary of Abbott during such person’s lifetime or prior to the termination of a fiduciary’s duties.  If a deceased participant or a deceased nonfiduciary beneficiary who had the right to designate a beneficiary as provided above dies without having designated a further beneficiary, or if no beneficiary designated as provided above is living or qualified and acting, the Committee, in its discretion, may direct distribution of the amount remaining from time to time to either:

 

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(i)     any one or more or all of the next of kin (including the surviving spouse) of the participant or the deceased beneficiary, as the case may be, and in such proportions as the Committee determines; or

 

(ii)    the legal representative of the estate of the deceased participant or deceased beneficiary as the case may be.

 

7-9.           NON-ASSIGNABILITY AND FACILITY OF PAYMENT.  Amounts payable to participants and their beneficiaries under the Plan are not in any way subject to their debts and other obligations, and may not be voluntarily or involuntarily sold, transferred or assigned; provided that the preceding provisions of this section shall not be construed as restricting in any way a designation right granted to a beneficiary pursuant to the terms of subsection 7-6.  When a participant or the beneficiary of a participant is under legal disability, or in the Committee’s opinion is in any way incapacitated so as to be unable to manage his or her financial affairs, the Committee may direct that payments shall be made to the participant’s or beneficiary’s legal representative, or to a relative or friend of the participant or beneficiary for the benefit of the participant or beneficiary, or the Committee may direct the payment or distribution for the benefit of the participant or beneficiary in any manner that the Committee determines.

 

7-10.         PAYER OF AMOUNTS ALLOCATED TO PARTICIPANTS.  Any employer contribution made on behalf of a participant in the Plan and any interest credited with respect thereto will be paid by the employer (or such employer’s successor) by whom the participant was employed during the calendar year for which any amount was contributed, and for that purpose, if a participant shall have been employed by two or more employers during any calendar year the amount allocated under this Plan for that year shall be an obligation of each of the respective employers in proportion to the respective amounts of compensation paid by each of them in that calendar year.

 

7-11.         MANNER OF PAYMENT OF DEFERRED ACCOUNTS.  Subject to subsection 7-12, a participant shall elect to receive payment of his Deferred Account in substantially equal annual installments over a minimum period of ten years, or a longer period, at the time of his election for such calendar year under subsection 5-1.  Payment of a participant’s Deferred Account shall commence on the first business day of January of the year following the year in which the participant incurs a termination of employment.

 

7-12.         PAYMENT UPON TERMINATION FOLLOWING CHANGE IN CONTROL. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, if a participant incurs a termination of employment with Abbott and its subsidiaries for any reason within two (2) years following the date of a Change in Control, provided that the event constituting a Change in Control is also a “change in control event”, as such term is defined in Treasury Regulation § 1.409A-3(i)(5):


 
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