Company: BGLC
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001477932-25-008317
Chunk: 48

Company: BioNexus Gene Lab Corp
Filing Date: 2025-11-14
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 48
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 the Option Term of (x) written notice of intent to purchase a specific number of Shares subject to the Option and (y) payment in full of the Option Price of such specific number of Shares, pursuant to subsection 2.3(e).

<div align='center'>SECTION 3. Stock Appreciation Rights</div>

3.1 Award of Stock Appreciation Rights. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall determine and designate from time to time those Eligible Individuals to whom SARs shall be granted and the number of Shares to be granted to each such Eligible Individual. When granted, SARS may, but need not, be identified with a specific Option (including any Option granted on or before the Grant Date of the SARs) in a number equal to or different from the number of SARs so granted. If SARs are identified with Shares subject to an Option, then, unless otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement, the Participant’s associated SARs shall terminate upon (x) the expiration, termination, forfeiture or cancellation of such Option, or (y) the exercise of such Option.

3.2 Strike Price. The strike price (“Strike Price”) of any SAR shall equal, for any SAR that is identified with an Option, the Option Price of such Option, or for any other SAR, 100% of the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Grant Date of such SAR; except that the Committee may (x) specify a higher Strike Price in the Award Agreement or (y) provide that the benefit payable upon exercise of any SAR shall not exceed a percentage of Fair Market Value of a Share on such Grant Date as the Committee shall specify.

3.3 Vesting of SARs. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Award Agreement or in the Participant’s employment or other agreement with the Corporation or any Subsidiary, (x) each SAR not identified with any other Award shall become exercisable with respect to 20% of the Shares subject thereto on each of the first five March 31 dates following the Grant Date of such SAR or in such other amounts and over such other time period as may be determined by the Committee and (y) each SAR which is identified with any other Award shall become exercisable as and to the extent that the Option with which such SAR is identified may be exercised.

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3.4 Exercise of SARs. SARs shall be exercised by delivery to the Corporation of written notice of intent to exercise a specific number of SARs. Unless otherwise provided