The Plan That KRY Management Uses to Reward Itself
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Jan 26, 2008 08:28PM
Crystallex International Corporation is a Canadian-based gold company with a successful record of developing and operating gold mines in Venezuela and elsewhere in South America
CRYSTALLEX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
DIRECTORS REMUNERATION PLAN
as amended and restated
as of January 1, 2005
DIRECTORS REMUNERATION PLAN
1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1.1 Interpretation
For the purposes of the Plan, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) “affiliate”, “associate” and “subsidiary” have the meanings ascribed to those
terms in Section 1 of the Securities Act (Ontario);(b) “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation;
(c) “Common Shares” means the Common Shares of the Corporation;
(d) “Corporation” means Crystallex International Corporation;
(e) “Eligible Person” means any director of the Corporation or any corporation that is
an associate, affiliate or subsidiary of the Corporation;
(f) “Insider” means:
(i) an insider as defined in Section 1(1) of the Securities: Act (Ontario), otherthan a person who falls within that definition solely by virtue of being a
director or senior officer of a subsidiary of the Corporation, and
(ii) an associate of any person who is an insider by virtue of (i) above;
(g) “Outstanding Issue” at any time means the number of issued and outstanding
Common Shares, on a nondiluted basis, at that time;
(h) “Plan” means this Directors Remuneration Plan of the Corporation; and
(i) “Share Compensation Arrangement” means any stock option, stock option plan,
employee stock purchase plan or any other compensation or incentive mechanism
involving the issuance or potential issuance of Common Shares, including a share
purchase from treasury which is financially assisted by the Corporation by way of
a loan, guarantee or otherwise.
Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural and vice versa and
words importing the masculine shall include the feminine.
The Plan and all matters to which reference is made herein shall be governed by and
interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada
applicable therein.
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1.2 Purpose
The purpose of the Plan is to provide for the issue of Common Shares to Eligible Persons
in addition to or in lieu of the cash remuneration payable to them in respect of their service as
directors of the Corporation or any corporation that is an associate, affiliate or subsidiary of the
Corporation.
1.3 Administration
(a) The Plan shall be administered by the Board or a committee of the Board duly
appointed for this purpose by the Board and consisting of not less than three
directors. If a committee is appointed for this purpose, all references to the Board
will be deemed to be references to the committee.
(b) Subject to the limitations of the Plan, the Board shall have the authority:
(i) to interpret the Plan and to adopt, amend and rescind such administrative
guidelines and other rules and regulations relating to the Plan as it shall
from time to time deem advisable, and
(ii) to make all other determinations and to take all other actions in connection
with the implementation and administration of the Plan as it may deem
necessary or advisable.
The Board's guidelines, rules, regulations, interpretations and determinations shall
be conclusive and binding upon the Corporation and all Eligible Persons.
1.4 Shares Reserved
(a) The maximum number of Common Shares issued and issuable under the Plan at
any time and from time to time shall be 600,000 Common Shares or such greater
number of Common Shares as may be approved by the shareholders of the
Corporation.
(b) The maximum number of Common Shares issued or issuable to Insiders at any
time under the Plan and any other Stock Compensation Arrangement shall not
exceed 10% of the Outstanding Issue.
(c) If there is a change in the outstanding Common Shares by reason of any stock
dividend or any recapitalization, amalgamation, subdivision, consolidation,
combination or exchange of shares, or other corporate change, the Board shall
make, subject to any required regulatory approval, appropriate substitution or
adjustment in the number or kind of shares or other securities issued and issuable
pursuant to the Plan; provided, however, that no substitution or adjustment shall
obligate the Corporation to issue fractional shares.
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1.5 Amendment and Termination
The Board may amend, suspend or terminate the Plan or any portion thereof at any time
in accordance with applicable legislation, and subject to any required regulatory or other
approval.
1.6 Compliance with Legislation
The Plan and the Corporation's obligation to issue and deliver Common Shares hereunder
shall be subject to all applicable federal, provincial and foreign laws, rules and regulations, the
rules and regulations of any stock exchange on which the Common Shares are listed for trading
and such regulatory and other approvals as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Corporation, be
required. The Corporation shall not be obliged by any provision of the Plan to issue Common
Shares in violation of such laws, rules and regulations or any condition of such approvals. No
Common Shares shall be issued hereunder where such issue would require registration of the
Plan or of Common Shares under the securities laws of any foreign jurisdiction and any
purported issue of any Common Shares hereunder in violation of this provision shall be void. In
addition, the Corporation shall have no obligation to issue any Common Shares pursuant to the
Plan unless such Common Shares shall have been duly listed with all stock exchanges on which
the Common Shares are listed for trading.
Common Shares issued to Eligible Persons pursuant to the Plan may be subject to
limitations on sale or resale under applicable securities laws.
1.7 Effective Date
The Plan shall be effective upon the approval of the Plan by:
(a) the Toronto Stock Exchange and any other exchange upon which the Common
Shares of the Corporation may be posted and listed for trading; and
(b) the shareholders of the Corporation, given by the affirmative vote of a majority of
the votes attached to the Common Shares of the Corporation entitled to vote, and
represented and voted at an annual or special meeting of the holders of such
Common Shares held, among other things, to consider and approve the Plan.
1.8 Miscellaneous
(a) Nothing contained in the Plan shall prevent the Board from adopting other or
additional compensation arrangements, subject to any required regulatory or other
approval.
(b) Nothing contained in the Plan shall give any Eligible Person any interest or title in
or to any Common Shares of the Corporation or any rights as a shareholder of the
Corporation or any other legal or equitable right against the Corporation
whatsoever other than as set forth in the Plan and upon the issue of Common
Shares under the Plan.
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(c) The Plan does not give any Eligible Person the right or obligation to continue to
serve as a director of the Corporation or any corporation that is an associate,
affiliate or subsidiary of the Corporation. The issue of Common Shares to any
Eligible Person is a matter to be determined solely in the discretion of the Board.
The Plan shall not in any way fetter, limit, obligate, restrict or constrain the Board
with regard to the issue of Common Shares or any other securities in the capital of
the Corporation.
(d) Upon any issue of Common Shares under the Plan, the Corporation shall add to
the stated capital account maintained by the Corporation in respect of the
Common Shares an amount equal to the number of Common Shares so issued
multiplied the issue price per Common Share at which the Common Shares were
issued.
2. COMMON SHARES
2.1 Issues
Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Board shall have the authority to issue Common
Shares to Eligible Persons in addition to or in lieu of the cash remuneration payable to them in
respect of their services as directors of the Corporation or any corporation that is an associate,
affiliate or subsidiary of the Corporation and to determine the terms, limitations, restrictions and
conditions, if any, in addition to those set forth in Section 2.2, applicable to such issue of
Common Shares.
2.2 Issue Price
The issue price per Common Share of any Common Shares issued hereunder shall not be
less than the closing price of the Common Shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange on the trading
day immediately preceding the date of the issue of the Common Shares.