EXHIBIT 10-F

Colgate-Palmolive Company

Restated and Amended

Deferred Compensation Plan for Non-Employee Directors

As Amended October 9, 1997

AMENDMENT

Effective January 1, 2005, the Plan is hereby amended to read as follows (with
added language bolded and underlined and deleted language struck through):

 

1. Section 2.2(a) is amended to read as follows:

 

  2.2 Election to Participate.

(a) Each Director may elect to defer payment of all or any portion (in
increments of 25%) of his or her Compensation that is payable during the
immediately succeeding Plan Year. Such election must be made by December 31 of
the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year in which such Compensation otherwise would
be paid. A Director who first becomes eligible to participate in the Plan after
the beginning of a Plan Year must make his election no later than thirty
(30) days after he first becomes eligible, and such election shall be effective
only with respect to amounts earned after the date of the election.

 

2. Section 2.5(c) is amended to read as follows:

(c) A Participant’s elections referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above must
be in writing and be delivered to the Committee with such Participant’s election
pursuant to Section 2.2. With respect to amounts attributable to pre-2005 Plan
Years, unless such elections are made irrevocable by their terms, a Participant,
at any time on or before

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December 1 of the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year in which distribution of
such Participant’s Stock Account is to commence, may request that such elections
be changed. Such request must be in writing and must be delivered to the
Committee prior to such December 1. The Committee shall have the sole discretion
to permit or deny such request. With respect to amounts attributable to
post-2004 Plan Years, any election made under paragraphs (a) and (b) above may
not be changed by any later election except that payment may be delayed, an
election (or deemed elections) of a single installment may be changed to annual
installment payments, or the number of annual installment payment may be
increased (but not in excess of ten) if the following requirements are met:

(i) the election will not take effect until at least twelve months after the
date on which the election is made and will not be recognized with respect to
payments that would otherwise have commenced during such twelve-month period;

(ii) except for payments made pursuant to Sections 2.7 and 2.9, the first
payment with respect to which such election is made shall be deferred for a
period of not less than five years from the date such payment would otherwise
have been made; and

(iii) any election related to payments that would otherwise have commenced as of
a specified time as opposed to the cessation of services as a Director may not
be made less than twelve months prior to the date on which such payments would
otherwise have commenced.

 

3. Section 2.5 is amended by adding a new subsection (e) which reads as follows:

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, if the Company determines
that a Participant is a “specified employee” subject to the special rule of
Section 409(A)(2)(B)(i) of the Code, all distributions of amounts attributable
to post-2004 years that are being made on account of the Participant’s
separation from service before the date which is six months after his or her
separation shall instead be made in a single lump sum, on or as soon as
practicable following the earlier of (i) the date which is six months after his
or her separation, or (ii) the date of his or her death.

 

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4. Section 2.7 is amended to read as follows:

 

  2.7 Severe Financial Hardship.

Notwithstanding any other Section of this Article 2, with respect to amounts
attributable to pre-2005 Plan Years, at the written request of a Participant or
a Participant’s legal representative, the Committee, in its sole discretion upon
a finding that continued deferral will result in severe financial hardship to
the Participant, may authorize (i) the payment of all or a part of a
Participant’s Stock Account in a single installment prior to his or her ceasing
to be a Director or (ii) the acceleration of payment of any multiple
installments thereof. With respect to amounts attributable to post-2004 years, a
payment under this Section 2.7 will be permitted only in the event of an
“Unforeseeable Emergency.” For this purpose, an “Unforeseeable Emergency” means
a severe financial hardship to the Participant resulting from an illness or
accident of the Participant, the Participant’s spouse or a dependent (as defined
in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, without regard
to sections 152(b)(1), (b)(2) and (d)(1)(B)) of the Participant, loss of the
Participant’s property due to casualty, or

 

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other similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result
of events beyond the control of the Participant. The amounts distributed with
respect to an “Unforeseeable Emergency” may not exceed the amounts necessary to
satisfy such emergency plus amounts necessary to pay taxes reasonably
anticipated as a result of the distribution, after taking into account the
extent to which such hardship is or may be relieved through reimbursement or
compensation by insurance or otherwise, by liquidation of the Participant’s
assets (to the extent the liquidation of such assets would not itself cause
severe financial hardship), or by cessation of deferrals under this Plan. The
determination of whether and to what extent a distribution is permitted pursuant
to this Section 2.7 shall be made by the Committee.

 

5. A new Section 4.11 is added to the Plan which reads as follows:

 

  4.11 Plan to Comply with Code Section 409A.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Plan, each provision in
this Plan shall be interpreted to permit the deferral of compensation in
accordance with Code section 409A and any provision that would conflict with
such requirements shall not be valid or enforceable.

 

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