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AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

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Title: AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
Date: 9/5/2008
Industry: Electronic Instr. and Controls     Sector: Technology

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN, Parties: agilent technologies inc
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Exhibit 10.1

 

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

 

(Amended and Restated, Effective November 1, 2008)

 

1.                                       PURPOSE .

 

                                                The purpose of this Plan is to provide an opportunity for Employees of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (the “Corporation”) and its Designated Subsidiaries, to purchase Common Stock of the Corporation and thereby to have an additional incentive to contribute to the prosperity of the Corporation.  It is the intention of the Corporation that the Plan qualifies as an “Employee Stock Purchase Plan” under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

2.                                       DEFINITIONS .

 

(a)                                   Board shall mean the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

 

(b)                                  Code shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, of the USA, as amended.  Any reference to a Section of the Code herein shall be a reference to any successor or amended Section of the Code.

 

(c)                                   Committee shall mean the committee appointed by the Board in accordance with Section 14 of the Plan.

 

(d)                                  Common Stock shall mean the Common Stock of the Corporation, or any stock into which such Common Stock may be converted.

 

(e)                                   Compensation shall mean an Employee’s base cash compensation, commissions and shift premiums paid on account of personal services rendered by the Employee to the Corporation or a Designated Subsidiary, which, effective as of November 1, 2005, shall be determined prior to deduction of deferrals of base pay under the Agilent Technologies, Inc. 2005 Deferred Compensation Plan, or any successor plan thereto, but shall exclude payments for overtime, incentive compensation, incentive payments and bonuses, with any modifications determined by the Committee.  The Committee shall have the authority to determine and approve all forms of pay to be included in the definition of Compensation and may change the definition on a prospective basis.

 

(f)                                     Corporation shall mean Agilent Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

(g)                                  Designated Subsidiary shall mean a Subsidiary that has been designated by the Committee as eligible to participate in the Plan with respect to its Employees.

 

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(h)                                  Employee shall mean an individual classified as an employee (within the meaning of Code Section 3401(c) and the regulations thereunder) by the Corporation or a Designated Subsidiary on the Corporation’s or such Designated Subsidiary’s payroll records during the relevant participation period.  Employees shall not include individuals classified as independent contractors.

 

(i)                                      Entry Date shall mean the first Trading Day of the Offering Period or, for new Participants, the first Trading Day of their first Purchase Period.

 

(j)                                      Fair Market Value shall be the closing sales price for the Common Stock (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Committee deems reliable, on the date of determination if that date is a Trading Day, or if that day is not a trading day, for the last market Trading Day prior to the date of determination.

 

(k)                                   Offering Period shall mean the period of up to twenty-four (24) months during which an option granted pursuant to the Plan may be exercised.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless changed by the Committee, effective with respect to the first Offering Period commencing after November 1, 2008, “Offering Period” shall mean a period of approximately six (6) months.  After November 1, 2008, unless changed by the Committee, Offering Periods shall commence on the first Trading Day on or after November 1 and May 1 of each year and terminate on the last Trading Day, respectively, of the subsequent April and October.  The duration and timing of Offering Periods may be changed or modified by the Committee.

 

(l)                                      Participant shall mean a participant in the Plan as described in Section 5 of the Plan.

 

(m)                                Plan shall mean this Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

 

(n)                                  Purchase Date shall mean the last Trading Day of each Purchase Period.

 

(o)                                  Purchase Period shall mean the period of six (6) months commencing after one Purchase Date and ending with the next Purchase Date.  Purchase Periods may, run consecutively after the termination of the preceding Purchase Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to the Committee’s discretion to modify Offering and Purchase Periods, effective November 1, 2008, “Purchase Period” shall mean the six (6) month period commencing on the first day of an Offering Period and ending on the last day of such Offering Period.

 

(p)                                  Purchase Price shall mean eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the Purchase Date, provided, however, that the Committee may elect with respect to future Offering Periods to establish the Purchase Price as eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock

 

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on the Entry Date or the Purchase Date, whichever is lower; provided however, that the Purchase Price may be adjusted by the Committee pursuant to Section 7.4.

 

(q)                                  Shareholder shall mean a record holder of shares entitled to vote shares of Common Stock under the Corporation’s by-laws.

 

(r)                                     Subsidiary shall mean any corporation (other than the Corporation) in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Corporation, as described in Code Section 424(f).

 

(s)                                   Trading Day shall mean a day on which U.S. national stock exchanges and the New York Stock Exchange are open for trading.

 

3.                                       ELIGIBILITY .

 

Any Employee regularly employed by the Corporation or by any Designated Subsidiary on an Entry Date shall be eligible to participate in the Plan with respect to the Purchase Period commencing on such Entry Date, provided that the Committee may establish administrative rules requiring that employment commence some minimum period ( e.g. , one pay period) prior to an Entry Date to be eligible to participate with respect to the Purchase Period beginning on that Entry Date.  The Committee may also determine that a designated group of highly compensated Employees are ineligible to participate in the Plan so long as the excluded category fits within the definition of “highly compensated employee” in Code Section 414(q).  No Employee may participate in the Plan if immediately after an option is granted the Employee owns or is considered to own (within the meaning of Code Section 424(d)), shares of stock, including stock which the Employee may purchase by conversion of convertible securities or under outstanding options granted by the Corporation, possessing five percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Corporation or of any of its Subsidiaries.  All Employees who participate in the Plan shall have the same rights and privileges under the Plan except for differences which may be mandated by local law and which are consistent with Code Section 423(b)(5); provided, however, that Employees participating in a sub-plan adopted pursuant to Section 15 which is not designed to qualify under Code Section 423 need not have the same rights and privileges as Employees participating in the Code Section 423 Plan.  The Board may impose restrictions on eligibility and participation of Employees who are officers and directors to facilitate compliance with federal or state securities laws or foreign laws.

 

4.                                       OFFERING PERIODS .

 

Effective November 1, 2008, the Plan shall have Offering Periods of approximately six (6) months duration which shall commence on the first Trading Day on or after November 1 and May 1.  Each of these Offering Periods shall terminate with a Purchase Date on the last Trading Day, respectively, on or before April 30 and October 31.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee shall retain the authority to

 

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implement consecutive Offering Periods with a new Offering Period commencing on the first Trading Day on or after the date twenty-four (24) months from the first date of the immediately preceding Offering Period, or on such other date as the Committee shall determine, and continuing thereafter for twenty-four (24) months or until terminated pursuant to Section 13 hereof.

 

The Committee shall have the authority to change the duration of Offering Periods (including the commencement dates thereof) with respect to future offerings without Shareholder approval if such change is announced at least five (5) days prior to the scheduled beginning of the first Offering Period to be affected thereafter.

 

5.                                       PARTICIPATION .

 

5.1                                  An Employee who is eligible to participate in the Plan in accordance with Section 3 may become a Participant by completing and submitting, on a date prescribed by the Committee prior to an applicable Entry Date, a completed payroll deduction authorization and Plan enrollment form provided by the Corporation or by following an electronic or other enrollment process as prescribed by the Committee.  An eligible Employee may authorize payroll deductions at the rate of any whole percentage of the Employee’s Compensation, not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the Employee’s Compensation.  All payroll deductions may be held by the Corporation and commingled with its other corporate funds where administratively appropriate.  No interest shall be paid or credited to the Participant with respect to such payroll deductions.  The Corporation shall maintain a separate bookkeeping account for each Participant under the Plan and the amount of each Participant’s payroll deductions shall be credited to such account.  A Participant may not make any additional payments into such account.

 

5.2                                  Under procedures established by the Committee, a Participant may withdraw from the Plan during a Purchase Period, by completing and filing a new payroll deduction authorization and Plan enrollment form with the Corporation or by following electronic or other procedures prescribed by the Committee, prior to the fifth business day preceding the Purchase Date. If a Participant withdraws from the Plan during a Purchase Period, his or her accumulated payroll deductions will be refunded to the Participant without interest.  The Committee may establish rules limiting the frequency with which Participants may withdraw and re-enroll in the Plan and may impose a waiting period on Participants wishing to re-enroll following withdrawal.

 

5.3                                  A Participant may change his or her rate of payroll deductions at


 
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