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ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES

Executive Employment Agreement

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Title: ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES
Governing Law: Illinois     Date: 2/23/2005

ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES, Parties: exelon generation co llc , exelon corporation
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Exhibit 10.49

 

EXELON CORPORATION

ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN

FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES

(Effective January 1, 2004)

 


 

EXELON CORPORATION

ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN

 

FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES

 

(Effective January 1, 2004)

 

I.

Establishment . The Exelon Corporation Annual Incentive Plan for Senior Executives (the “Plan”) was established by Exelon Corporation (the “Company”) effective January 1, 2004, subject to the approval by an affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of common stock of the Company present in person or represented by proxy at the 2004 annual meeting of stockholders, and shall terminate as of December 31, 2008, unless terminated earlier by the Board of Directors of the Company

 

II.

Purpose . The purpose of the Plan is to reward achievement of key annual goals, to enhance the Company’s ability to attract, motivate, reward and retain certain officers and key executive employees, to strengthen their commitment to the success of the Company, to promote the near-term objectives of the Company, and to ensure annual incentive compensation payable to the Company’s Section 162(m) Executives can be eligible to be tax-deductible by the Company.

 

III.

Definitions .

 

 

A.

Award means the annual incentive award payable to a Participant hereunder with respect to a Plan Year.

 

 

B.

Committee means the members of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company who qualify as “outside directors” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code; provided that if there are not at least two such members, then the Committee shall be a committee of at least two “outside directors” as so defined, appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company and which satisfies any other applicable requirements of the principal stock exchange on which the common stock of the Company is then traded to constitute a compensation committee.

 

 

C.

Company means Exelon Corporation and any successor thereto.

 

 

D.

Disability means a physical or mental condition on account of which benefits under the long-term disability plan of the Company or Subsidiary, whichever covers the Participant, have commenced.

 

 

E.

Eligible Executive means an Employee who is a member of the Company’s strategy and policy committee (or any successor committee) or whose level is senior vice president (or any equivalent successor level) or higher.

 

 

F.

Employee means an employee of the Company or a Subsidiary employed in an executive or officer level position.

 


 

G.

Incentive Pool means an amount, expressed either as a dollar value or pursuant to an objective formula or performance measure, that is designated by the Committee as available to fund Awards for a Plan Year pursuant to Section VI.A.

 

 

H.

Internal Revenue Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and all applicable regulations and rulings thereunder as in effect from time to time.

 

 

I.

Participant means an Eligible Executive who has been selected by the Committee to participate in the Plan for a particular Plan Year. Unless the context requires otherwise, the term “Participant” shall include “Part-Year Participants” as defined in Section IV.B.

 

 

J.

Performance Goals means the objective performance goal(s) designated by the Committee pursuant to Section VI.B. with respect to an Incentive Pool.

 

 

K.

Plan means this Exelon Corporation Annual Incentive Plan for Senior Executives as set forth herein and as amended from time to time.

 

 

L.

Plan Year means the Company’s fiscal year which, as of the effective date of the Plan, is the calendar year.

 

 

M.

Pro-ration Fraction means with respect to a Plan Year the number of days a Part-Year Participant was an Eligible Executive during the Plan Year, divided by 365 (or in the case of a Plan Year of more or less than 365 days, the number of days in the Plan Year).

 

 

N.

Required Period means at a time (1) when the outcome of the performance goals established pursuant to Article VI is substantially uncertain and (2) either (a) before the commencement of the Plan Year or, (b) (i) in the case of a 12-month Plan Year, not later than 90 days after the commencement of such Plan Year, (ii) in the case of a Plan Year shorter than 12 months, after no more than 25% of such Plan Year has elapsed, and (iii) in the case of a Participant who became an Eligible Executive after the first day of the Plan Year, after no more than 25% of the remainder of such Plan Year has elapsed after the Participant became an Eligible Executive. Any action required to be taken within the Required Period may be taken at a later date to the extent permissible under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

 

O.

Retirement means a Participant’s termination of employment other than for “cause” (as defined in the Exelon Corporation Senior Management Severance Plan as in effect from time to time, or such other employment or severance plan or agreement governing the terms of the Participant’s termination of employment) after attaining age 50 with 10 years of service under the Company’s applicable defined benefit pension plan (including for this purpose any deemed pension service granted to the Participant under an employment or change in control agreement to the extent any

 

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applicable vesting or other conditions to such deemed service have been satisfied upon such termination of employment).

 

 

P.

Section 162(m) Executive means an Eligible Executive who is a “covered employee” as defined in Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

 

Q.

Subsidiary means a business which is affiliated through common ownership with the Company, and which is designated by the Committee as an employer whose employees may be eligible to participate in the Plan, but only with respect to such period of affiliation.

 

IV.

Participation .

 

 

A.

Generally . Within the Required Period at the beginning of each Plan Year, the Committee shall designate the Participants (if any) for such Plan Year. Any individual who is an Eligible Executive as of the first day of the Plan Year may be designated as a Participant.

 

 

B.

Individuals Who Become Eligible Executives During a Plan Year . An individual who becomes an Eligible Executive after the first day of a Plan Year may be designated as a Participant for the remainder of the Plan Year (a “Part-Year Participant”) at any time within the Required Period after becoming an Eligible Executive.

 

V.

Administration .

 

 

A.

The Committee shall administer the Plan.

 

 

B.

The Committee shall have full and complete authority to establish any rules and regulations it deems necessary or appropriate relating to the Plan, to interpret and construe the Plan and those rules and regulations, to correct defects and supply omissions, to determine the who shall become Participants for any Plan Year, to determine the performance goals and other terms and conditions applicable to each Award (including the extent to which any payment shall be made under an Award in the event of a change in control of the Company), to certify the achievement of performance goals and approve all Awards (subject to Section VII.B.), to determine whether and to what extent Awards may be paid on a deferred basis, to make all factual and other determinations arising under the Plan, and to take all other actions the Committee deems necessary or appropriate for the proper administration of the Plan.

 

 

C.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee shall not be authorized to increase the amount of the Award payable to a Section 162(m) Executive that would otherwise be payable under the terms of the Plan or an Award.

 

 

D.

The Committee may from time to time delegate the performance of its ministerial duties under the Plan to the Company’s Vice President of Corporate Compensation or

 

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such other person or persons as the Committee may select ; except that the power or authority of the Committee shall not be delegated to the extent such delegation would cause any Award payable to a Section 162(m) Executive to fail to be tax-deductible under Section 162(m) of the Code, including but not limited to the responsibility to certify the extent to which performance goals have been attained.

 

 

E.

Subject to Section VII.B., the Committee’s administration of the Plan, including all such rules and regulations, interpretations and construals, selections, factual and other determinations, approvals, decisions, delegations, amendments, terminations and other actions, as the Committee shall see fit shall be final and binding on the Company and its Subsidiaries, stockholders and all employees, including Participants and their beneficiaries. Any decision made by the Committee in good faith in connection with its administration of or responsibilities under the Plan shall be conclusive on all persons.

 

 

F.

The Committee may, subject to the limitations described in paragraph D. above, engage and rely on the advice of such advisors, consultants or data as it considers necessary or desirable in selecting eligible key employees, in designating applicable Performance Goals, and in determining attainment of performance goals and the amount of incentive awards under the Plan, and in performing its other duties under the Plan.

 

 

G.

The Company and/or its participating Subsidiaries shall pay the costs of Plan administration.

 

VI.

Performance Goals .

 

 

A.

Establishment of Incentive Pool(s) . Within the Required Period for each Plan Year, the Committee shall establish in writing one or more Incentive Pools from which Awards (if any) will be paid for such Plan Year, and shall designate the Participants eligible to share in each such Incentive Pool (subject to the Committee’s right to add new Participants during the Plan Year in accordance with Section IV.B. above). The amount available under each Incentive Pool (or portion thereof) shall be based on the attainment of one or more specified Performance Goals, weighted in such manner as the Committee determines, and may, but need not be based on or contingent upon the level of achievement of threshold or target or maximum performance (as set by the Committee) of the stated


 
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