Exhibit 10.2
THE LUBRIZOL CORPORATION
2005 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
(As Amended, October 1, 2008)
1. Purpose . The purpose of
this 2005 Executive Council Deferred Compensation Plan (the
“Plan”) is to permit a person who is a member of the
Executive Council (sometimes hereinafter referred to as the
“Member” or as the “Participant”), and who
is employed by The Lubrizol Corporation (the
“Company”), to defer a portion of such Member’s
compensation earned in calendar years beginning on or after
January 1, 2005, as provided in this Plan.
2. Administration . The Plan
shall be administered by the Organization and Compensation
Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company (the
“Committee”). The Committee’s interpretation and
construction of all provisions of the Plan shall be binding and
conclusive upon all Participants and their heirs and/or
successors.
3. Right to Defer
Compensation .
(a) A Member may, at any time prior
to January 1 of a given calendar year, elect, for one the
calendar year commencing with the calendar year immediately
following the election (“Participation Year”), to defer
under the Plan a pre-selected fixed dollar amount or percentage up
to 90 percent of such Member’s annual variable compensation,
if any (the “deferred compensation”), under the
Company’s annual incentive plan (“Incentive
Plan”), which such Participant may thereafter be entitled to
receive for services performed during the Participation Year;
provided, however that the actual amount deferred will be the
elected amount less any applicable withholding taxes.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Member may prior to March 15,
2005 make an election relating to deferred compensation with
respect to services performed on or after January 1, 2005 and
on or before December 31, 2005.
(b) The election under this
Section 3 shall take effect on the first day of the elected
Participation Year and such election shall be irrevocable for any
elected Participation Year once such Participation Year shall have
commenced.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraphs
(a) and (b), the first year a Participant becomes eligible to
participate in the Plan, he may make an initial deferral election
within 30 days after he becomes eligible to participate but only
with respect to compensation paid for services performed after the
election.
(d) All elections under this Plan
shall be made by written notice (on a form provided by the Company)
specifying the deferred compensation, if any, determined under
paragraph (a).
(e) A Participant must make an
election for each Participation Year. Notwithstanding paragraph
(b) and the first sentence of this paragraph (e), any variable
compensation earned after the end of the first month in which a
Participant under this Plan ceases to be a Member, as defined in
Section 1, but continues to be employed by the Company, shall
not be deferred, provided however, the balance in the
Participant’s Stock Deferral Accounts shall continue to be
held and administered pursuant to the Plan.
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(f) All notices by a Participant
under the Plan shall be in writing and shall be given to the
Company’s Vice President, Human Resources.
(g) Once a Member has met the
Member’s Lubrizol stock ownership guidelines, the Member is
no longer eligible to make a deferral election under this Plan;
provided however, the foregoing shall not apply to a Member who
becomes subject to a higher stock ownership guideline due to a
change in the stock ownership requirements or due to the
Member’s promotion to a higher level of stock ownership
requirement until the Member has met the new stock ownership
guidelines.
4. Stock Deferral Accounts and
Stock Matching Accounts .
(a) At the close of business of the
day on which the Incentive Plan deferred compensation would have
been payable to the Participant in the absence of the election
under the Plan to defer payment thereof, there shall be credited to
a separate Stock Deferral Account and Stock Matching Account for
each Participant full and fractional stock equivalent units
(“Units”) which shall be established as hereinafter
provided and shall be maintained for each Participant on the
Company’s records.
(b) The number of full and
fractional Units that shall be credited to a separate Stock
Deferral Account for a Participant shall be equal to an amount
determined by dividing the Participant’s deferred
compensation for the applicable Participation Year by the average
of the closing price for Lubrizol Common Shares
(“Shares”) on the New York Stock Exchange
(“NYSE”) composite transactions reporting system
(“composite tape”) for each of the ten
(10) consecutive trading days commencing on the fourth
business day following the release of earnings for such
Participation Year.
(c) The number of full and
fractional Units that shall be credited to a separate Stock
Matching Account for a Participant shall be equal to an amount
determined by multiplying the number of Units determined in
paragraph (b) by .25.
(d) To the extent that, at the time
Units are credited to a Stock Deferral Account Stock Matching
Account of a Participant, any federal, state or local payroll
withholding tax applies (e.g., Medicare withholding tax), the
Participant shall be responsible for the payment of such amount to
the Company and the Company shall promptly remit such amount to the
proper taxing authority.
(e) The amount of deferred
compensation used in the formulae set forth in paragraphs
(b) and (c) shall not constitute sums due and owing to
Participant. Such amounts shall be used solely as part of the
formulae to determine the number of full and fractional
Units.
(f) As of each dividend payment date
established by the Company for the payment of cash dividends with
respect to its Shares, the Company shall credit each separate Stock
Deferral Account and Stock Matching Account of a Participant with
an additional number of whole and/or fractional Units equal
to:
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(i)
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the product of
(x) the dividend per Share which is payable with respect to
such dividend payment date, multiplied by (y) the number of
whole and fractional Units credited to the separate Stock Deferral
Account and Stock Matching Account, respectively, of the
Participant as of such payment date;
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