APPENDIX B
AMENDED AND RESTATED 2023 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
(Netherlands and UK Participants)
This Appendix B, which is part of the Plan, includes additional terms and conditions of the Plan that apply to Participants in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the same meanings assigned to them in the Plan.
1. GENERAL
1.1 The grant of an Option is voluntary and occasional and does not create any contractual or other right to receive future Options, or benefits in lieu of Options, even if Options have been granted repeatedly in the past.
1.2 A Participant’s participation in the Plan shall not create a right to further service with the Company or a Participating Subsidiary and shall not interfere with the ability of the Company or any Participating Subsidiary to terminate a Participant’s service at any time, with or without cause, insofar as permitted under local law.
1.3 The Option and resulting Shares, if any, are an extraordinary item that does not constitute Compensation of any kind for service of any kind rendered to the Company or any Participating Subsidiary, and which is outside the scope of the Participant’s employment contract, if any.
1.4 The Option is not part of normal or expected Compensation or salary for any purpose, including, but not limited to, calculating any severance, resignation, termination, redundancy, end-of-service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits or similar payments.
1.5 In consideration of the grant of an Option, no claim or entitlement to compensation or damages shall arise from termination of the purchase right or diminution in value of the Option or Shares resulting from termination of a Participant’s service (for any reason whether or not in breach of local law) and by participating in the Plan, a Participant irrevocably releases the Company and each Participating Subsidiary from any such claim that may arise. If, notwithstanding the foregoing, any such claim is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have arisen then, by enrolling in the Plan, a Participant shall be deemed irrevocably to have waived their entitlement to pursue such a claim.
1.6 A Participant’s payroll account under the Plan will be denominated in U.S. dollars, and the Participant bears the risk of currency fluctuations in connection with the exchange of contributions into their payroll account under the Plan from the currency in which their base salary is paid into U.S. dollars.
2. TAXES
2.1 All taxes, social security obligations, duties, interests, penalties and other expenses incurred in connection with the granting or exercising of Options and the issuing, holding or selling and transferring of Shares, including taxes, social security obligations, duties, interest, penalties and other expenses which are to be withheld by the Participating Subsidiary that employs the Participant under applicable law or any subsequent payment in respect of the Options or Shares (“Tax”) shall be for the risk and account of the Participant, and the Participant will indemnify and hold harmless their employer, the Company and each other Participating Subsidiary against any liability for any Tax.
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