Exhibit 10.3
AGCO CORPORATION
AMENDED AND RESTATED
EXECUTIVE NONQUALIFIED PENSION PLAN
EFFECTIVE AS OF JANUARY 1, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I —
DEFINITIONS
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1.1 Accrual
Factor
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1.2 Accrued
Benefit
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1.3 Actuarial
Equivalent
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1.4 Administrative
Committee
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1.5
Affiliate
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1.6 Base
Salary
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1.7 Benefit
Commencement Date
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1.8 Board
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1.9 Change in
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1.10 Code
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1.11 Company
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1.12 Death
Benefit
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1.13 Designated
Beneficiary
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1.14
Disability
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1.15 Effective
Date
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1.16 Eligible
Employee
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1.17 Employment
Commencement Date
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1.18 ERISA
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1.19 Final
Earnings
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1.20
Interest
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1.21 Normal
Retirement Age
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1.22 Normal
Retirement Benefit
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1.23
Participant
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1.24 Plan
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1.25 Plan
Year
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1.26 Savings Plan
Benefit
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1.27 Separation
from Service
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1.28 Social
Security Benefit
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1.29 Trust or
Trust Agreement
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1.30 Trustee
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1.31 Trust
Fund
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1.32 Years of
Credited Service
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ARTICLE II —
ELIGIBILITY
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2.1 Selection of
Participants
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2.2 Removal from
Active Participation
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ARTICLE III
— BENEFITS
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3.1 Benefit
Amount
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3.2 Payment of
Benefit
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3.3 Change in
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3.4 Death
Benefit
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ARTICLE IV —
CLAIMS
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4.1 Claims
Procedure
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4.2 Claims Review
Procedure
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ARTICLE V —
SOURCE OF FUNDS TRUST
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5.1 Source of
Funds
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5.2 Trust
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ARTICLE VI —
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
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6.1 Action
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6.2 Rights and
Duties
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6.3 Compensation,
Indemnity and Liability
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6.4 Taxes
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ARTICLE VII
— AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION
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7.1
Amendments
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7.2 Termination of
Plan
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ARTICLE VIII
— MISCELLANEOUS
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8.1 Taxation
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8.2 No Employment
Contract
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8.3 Headings
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8.4 Gender and
Number
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8.5 Assignment of
Benefits
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8.6 Legally
Incompetent
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8.7 Governing
Law
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SCHEDULE A
PARTICIPANTS
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AGCO CORPORATION
AMENDED AND RESTATED
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
Effective as of January 1, 2007,
AGCO Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”),
hereby adopts the AGCO Corporation Amended and Restated Executive
Nonqualified Pension Plan (the “Plan”), which was last
amended and restated effective January 1, 2005.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
A. General
Purpose . The primary purpose of the Plan is to provide
additional retirement income to a select group of management
personnel of the Company and its affiliates that adopt the Plan as
participating companies.
B. Type of Plan .
The Plan is intended to constitute a non-qualified deferred
compensation plan that complies with the provisions of Code
Section 409A and an unfunded, nonqualified deferred
compensation plan that benefits certain designated employees who
are within a select group of key management or highly compensated
employees within the meaning of Title I of ERISA.
STATEMENT OF AGREEMENT
To establish the Plan with the
purposes and goals as hereinabove described, the Company hereby
sets forth the terms and provisions as follows:
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
For purposes of the Plan, the
following terms, when used with an initial capital letter, shall
have the meaning set forth below unless a different meaning plainly
is required by the context.
1.1 Accrual Factor
shall mean, with respect to a Participant, the annual factor used
to determine the Participant’s Accrued Benefit, which is
equal to:
(i) 3% for each Participant who is
employed as a Senior Vice President or greater position with the
Company in such year, and
(ii) 2.25% for each Participant who
is employed as a Vice President with the Company in such
year.
1.2 Accrued Benefit
shall mean, with respect to a Participant and as of any date it is
determined, an annual amount, payable in twelve (12) monthly
payments for fifteen (15) years certain, which is equal to
(i) the Participant’s Final Earnings, multiplied
by (ii) the Participant’s Years of Credited Service,
multiplied by (iii) the Participant’s Accrual
Factor, and reduced by (iv) the Participant’s
Social Security Benefit and Savings Plan Benefit; provided,
however, that the maximum Accrued Benefit attainable hereunder
shall not be greater than:
(i) In
the case of a Participant who is employed as a Senior Vice
President or greater position with the Company immediately prior to
his termination of employment with the Company, 60% of the
Participant’s Final Earnings, subject to reduction by the
Participant’s Social Security Benefit and Savings Plan
Benefit, and
(ii) In
the case of a Participant who is employed as a Vice President of
the Company or equivalent position as determined in accordance with
Article II immediately prior to his termination of employment
with the Company, 45% of the Participant’s Final Earnings,
subject to reduction by the Participant’s Social Security
Benefit and Savings Plan Benefit.
1.3 Actuarial
Equivalent shall mean an amount of equivalent value based
on the applicable mortality rate in effect under the 1994 Group
Annuity Reserving table (94 GAR) and an effective annual interest
rate of 7% compounded annually.
1.4 Administrative
Committee shall mean a committee appointed by the Board,
which shall act on behalf of the Company to administer the Plan.
From time to time, the Board may appoint other members of such
committee in addition to, or in lieu of; the individuals holding
said titles.
1.5 Affiliate shall
mean (i) any corporation or other entity that is required to
be aggregated with the Company under Code Sections 414(b),
(c), (m), (o), or 409A and (ii) any other entity in which the
Company has an ownership interest and which the Company designates
as an Affiliate for purposes of the Plan.
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1.6 Base Salary shall
mean, with respect to a Participant for a calendar year, the
Participant’s regular base salary amount paid to him during
such calendar year, plus any amounts of base salary that the
Participant may have elected to defer under the terms of any Code
Section 401(k) or 125 plan or any nonqualified deferred
compensation plan maintained by the Company or an Affiliate, but
excluding bonuses, incentive compensation, expense reimbursements
and the value of any fringe benefits.
1.7 Benefit Commencement
Date shall mean, with respect to a Participant’s
Accrued Benefit, the first day of the month coinciding with or
immediately following the date a Participant experiences a
Separation from Service on or after the date on which he becomes
eligible to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit under the Plan and
the earlier of the following to occur: (i) attains Normal
Retirement Age, (ii) dies, or (iii) experiences a
Separation from Service due to Disability.
1.8 Board shall mean
the Board of Directors of the Company.
1.9 Change in Control
shall mean any one of the following:
(a) The
acquisition by any person (as such term is used in Sections 13(d)
and 14(d)(2) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended), together with affiliates and associates of such person,
whether by purchase, tender offer, exchange, reclassification,
recapitalization, merger or otherwise, of a sufficient number of
shares of the voting securities of the Company to first provide
such person with 50% or more of the combined voting power of the
Company’s then outstanding voting securities; or
(b) The
cessation, for any reason during any twelve-month period, of
individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute the
Board, to constitute at least a majority thereof, unless the
election of each director who was not a director at the beginning
of such period has been approved in advance by a majority of the
continuing directors then in office; or
(c) The
sale by the Company over a twelve-month period, in one transaction
or a series of related transactions, whether in liquidation,
dissolution or otherwise, of assets or earning power aggregating
more than 50% of the assets or earning power of the Company and its
subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other entity or
entities.
1.10 Code shall mean
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
1.11 Company shall mean
AGCO Corporation, a Delaware corporation with its principal place
of business in Duluth, Georgia.
1.12 Death Benefit
shall mean the amount payable to a deceased Participant’s
Designated Beneficiary, as determined pursuant to the terms of
Section 3.4.
1.13 Designated
Beneficiary shall mean the person or persons identified by
the Participant as eligible to receive benefits under the Plan on a
form acceptable to the Administrative Committee. In the event no
such written designation is made by a Participant or
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if such
beneficiary shall not be living or in existence at the time for
commencement of payment under the Plan, the Participant shall be
deemed to have designated his estate as such beneficiary.
1.14 Disability shall
mean, subject to the requirements of Code Section 409A, the
inability to engage in any substantial, gainful activity by reason
of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment that
can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be
expected to last for a continuous period of not less than
12 months. The permanence and degree of such impairment shall
be supported by medical evidence. The determination as to whether a
Participant is disabled based on the preceding criteria shall be
made based (a) on evidence that the Participant is eligible
for disability benefits under any long-term disability plan
sponsored by the Company but administered by an independent third
party, or (b) on evidence that the Participant is eligible for
total and permanent disability benefits under the Social Security
Act in effect at the date of disability.
1.15 Effective Date
shall mean January 1, 2007, the date as of which this amended
and restated Plan shall be effective.
1.16 Eligible Employee
shall mean any individual who, as determined by the Board in its
sole discretion, is a member of a select group of highly
compensated or key management employees of the Company.
1.17 Employment Commencement
Date shall mean, with respect to a Participant, the date on
which such Participant first performs services for the Company or
an Affiliate.
1.18 ERISA shall mean
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
1.19 Final Earnings
shall mean, for a Participant, the average of his Base Salary plus
annual incentive payments under the Management Incentive
Compensation Plan for such calendar year actually received for the
three most recent, full calendar years ending on or immediately
before the date his employment with the Company and all Affiliates
terminates, or he is removed from active participation in the Plan
pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof.
1.20 Interest shall
mean the prime rate of interest published in the Wall Street
Journal as of the last business day of the month compounded
monthly.
1.21 Normal Retirement
Age shall mean age 65.
1.22 Normal Retirement
Benefit shall mean the amount payable to a Participant, as
determined pursuant to the terms of Section 3.1(a).
1.23 Participant shall
mean any individual who has been admitted to participation in the
Plan pursuant to the provisions of Article II.
1.24 Plan shall mean
the AGCO Corporation Amended and Restated Executive Nonqualified
Pension Plan, as contained herein and all amendments hereto.
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1.25 Plan Year shall
mean the 12-consecutive-month period ending on December 31 of
each year.
1.26 Savings Plan
Benefit shall mean the Actuarial Equivalent of a
Participant’s accrued benefit attributable to employer
matching contributions and earnings thereon under the AGCO
Corporation 401(k) Savings Plan, calculated as if such benefit was
payable in the form of a single life annuity for the
Participant’s lifetime. The Participant’s Savings Plan
Benefit shall also include the Actuarial Equivalent of (i) all
amounts attributable to employer contributions and earnings thereon
credited to the Participant’s account under any nonqualified
deferred compensation plan maintained by the Company or an
Affiliate, and (ii) any benefits attributable to contributions
made by the Company or any Affiliate under any retirement plan
established under the laws of any foreign country (excluding any
foreign retirement plan described in Section 1.29).
1.27 Separation from
Service means the date as of which a Participant dies,
retires, or otherwise terminates employment with the Company. A
Participant shall not be treated as having a Separation from
Service while the Participant is on military leave, sick leave, or
other bona fide leave of absence if the period does not exceed six
months or, if longer, so long as the individual’s right to
reemployment is provided either by statute or contract. Whether a
termination of employment has occurred will be determined based on
the facts and circumstances and in accordance with the guidance
under Code Section 409A.
1.28 Social Security
Benefit shall mean, for a Participant, the maximum annual
primary Social Security retirement benefit amount that, under the
law as in effect as of the Participant’s Benefit Commencement
Date, could be payable to him (regardless of his actual Social
Security compensation amounts) at such date. A Participant’s
Social Security benefit shall also include any retirement benefits
payable to the Participant under any similar retirement program of
any foreign country.
1.29 Trust or Trust
Agreement shall mean the separate agreement or agreements
between the Company and the Trustee governing the creation of the
Trust Fund, and all amendments thereto.
1.30 Trustee shall mean
the party or parties so designated from time to time pursuant to
the terms of the Trust Agreement.
1.31 Trust Fund shall
mean the total amount of cash and other property held by the
Trustee (or any nominee thereof) at any time under
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