Exhibit 10.1

 

PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.

DIRECTORS’ COMMON STOCK PLAN

 

1.   PURPOSE. The purpose of this Plan is to align the financial interests of
the Company’s shareholders with those of its Non-Employee Directors by providing
such Directors with compensation in the form of Company Common Stock.

 

2.   DEFINITIONS.

 

“Account” means the account maintained for each Non-Employee Director to which
Common Stock Equivalents and Dividend Equivalents are credited.

 

“Annual Contribution” means the Common Stock Equivalents credited to an Account
each year under Section 4.1.

 

“Beneficiary” means the person or entity designated by the Participant or the
Participant’s legal representative as provided under Section 9.

 

“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

“Change in Control” has the same meaning as given to that term in the PPG
Industries, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors, as such plan may be
amended from time to time.

 

“Committee” means the Officers-Directors Compensation Committee of the Board.

 

“Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $1.66 2/3 per share, of the
Company.

 

“Common Stock Equivalent” means a hypothetical share of Common Stock.

 

“Company” means PPG Industries, Inc.

 

“Dividend Equivalent” means an additional number of Common Stock Equivalents the
Company shall credit to each Account as of each dividend payment date declared
with respect to the

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Company’s Common Stock. The additional number of Common Stock Equivalents to be
credited to each Account shall be equal to:

 

  (a)   the product of (i) the dividend per share of the Common Stock which is
payable as of the dividend payment date, multiplied by (ii) the number of whole
Common Stock Equivalents credited to the Account as of the applicable dividend
record date;

 

DIVIDED BY

 

  (b)   the closing price of a share of the Common Stock on the dividend payment
date (or if such stock was not traded on that date, on the next preceding date
on which it was traded), as reported in the New York Stock Exchange Composite
Transactions.

 

“Non-Employee Director” means a director of the Company who is not a present or
former employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

“Participant” means a Non-Employee Director who has become eligible to receive
benefits under the Plan and who has resigned or retired or is otherwise no
longer an active Director of the Company as of January 1, 2003.

 

“Plan” means the PPG Industries, Inc. Directors’ Common Stock Plan.

 

“Retainer” means the base annual retainer fee paid to each Non-Employee Director
by the Company. It does not include committee retainer fees, meeting attendance
fees, committee chairperson’s retainer fees or any other compensation other than
the base annual retainer fee.

 

“Service” means the period of time a Non-Employee Director serves on the Board.

 

3.   EFFECTIVE DATE. This Plan shall be effective on and after January 1, 1988.

 

4.   CREDITING ACCOUNTS.

 

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4.1   Each year on the day following the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the
Company, the Company shall credit the Account of each Non-Employee Director who
serves on the Board on that day with the number of Common Stock Equivalents
determined by dividing one-half of such Director’s Retainer by the average
closing price of the Common Stock in the New York Stock Exchange Composite
Transactions during the 5 days for which such price is available immediately
preceding such day of crediting. The Account of any person who ceases to be a
Director prior to April 16, 1999, shall be credited with no more than 10 such
Annual Contributions and the total number of such Annual Contributions made to
his or her Account under this Section 4.1 plus the number which is multiplied by
$10,000 to determine the amount credited to the Account under Section 4.2 will
not exceed 10. Any Non-Employee Director who is a Director of the Company on or
after April 16, 1999 and whose total number of Annual Contributions was limited
to 10 under the Plan in effect prior to April 16, 1999, shall have credited to
his or her Account such additional Annual Contributions and Dividend Equivalents
as are necessary so that such Account is credited with the number of Common
Stock Equivalents it would have had credited if such limitation had never
existed.

 

4.2   On the day following the 1988 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the
Company, the Company shall credit the Account of each Non-Employee Director who
is age 61 or older on that date with the number of Common Stock Equivalents
determined by (1) multiplying $10,000 times his or her number of full fiscal
years of Service, but such number of full fiscal years of Service shall not
exceed the number determined by subtracting 60 from the Non-Employee Director’s
age on the day immediately following the 1988 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and
(2) then dividing that amount by the average closing price of the Common Stock
in the New York Stock Exchange Composite Transactions during the 5 days for
which such price is available immediately preceding such day.

 

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5.   PAYMENTS OF BENEFITS.

 

5.1   Payments from the Account will be made in the form of Common Stock,
provided that payment with respect to any partial shares of Common Stock shall
be made in the form of cash. However, payments from the Account of any
Participant who ceased to be a director of the Company before August 15, 1996
shall continue to be paid in the manner provided by the Plan as effective on
August 15, 1996.

 

5.2   Subject to Section 5.4 and Section 5.5, a Participant may elect to have
the amount deferred paid in from one to 15 annual installments after he or she
shall cease to be a director of the Company.

 

Such installment(s) shall commence upon or following

 

  (i)   a specified date;

  (ii)   an event certain;

  (iii)   the earlier of a specified date or an event certain.

 

Installments shall continue to be payable as soon as practicable after the first
day of January of each year thereafter.

 

Subject to Sections 5.4 and 5.5, payment of deferred amounts shall commence no
later than January of the first calendar year which is the later of:

 

  (i)   the year following attainment of age seventy (or such other age as may
supersede the age referred to in Section 403(f)(3) of Title 42 United States
Code); or

 

  (ii)   the year following such Participant’s retirement.

 

The number of shares of Common Stock paid in each installment shall be equal to
the whole number obtained by dividing the number of Common Stock Equivalents
then credited to the Participant’s Account by the number of unpaid installments.
Common Stock Equivalents with respect to which payment has not yet occurred
shall continue to be

 

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credited with Dividend Equivalents until paid. However, no installment paid from
the Account may be in an amount less than 20 shares of Common Stock, and, to the
extent necessary, installments shall be accelerated to provide for such minimum
installments. As of the date on which the last payment of benefits is made to a
Participant from the Account, the Company shall pay the Participant, in cash, an
amount equal to the value of any remaining fractional Common Stock Equivalent
based on the closing price of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange
Composite Transactions on the last date such price is available prior to the
payment date.

 

5.3   Death or Disability

 

  (i)   Subject to Section 7, in the event of the death or disability of a
Participant either while serving as a director of the Company or prior to the
commencement of any payments hereunder, any amount due under the Plan shall be
paid in a lump sum to the Participant’s beneficiary, or in the case of
disability, to the Participant, as soon as practicable after the death or
disability.

 

  (ii)   Subject to Section 7, in the event of the death or disability of a
Participant on or after the commencement of installment payments, in accordance
with Section 5.2, payments shall continue to paid to the Participant’s
beneficiary, or in the case of disability, to the Participant, in accordance
with the election made by the Participant in accordance with Section 5.2;
provided, however, that the Secretary of the Committee shall have the power to
accelerate the payment of any installment(s) because of hardship or other
circumstances deemed by him, in his discretion, to warrant such acceleration.

 

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5.4   Payment Elections

 

Subject to Section 5.6, a Participant may elect the number and the date or event
for the commencement of installment payments in accordance with the following:

 

  (i)   Such elections must be made at least six months and ten days prior to
the first payment date; and

 

  (ii)   In all cases, the elections must be made in the calendar year preceding
the first payment date.

 

5.5   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the first installment to
a Participant out of the Account shall not be paid until six months and ten days
after the Participant shall cease to be a director of the Company.

 

5.6   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, any Participant who,
pursuant to any income tax laws to which he or she is subject, would be
immediately taxed on any amounts credited under the Plan may not elect the
number and the date or event for the commencement of payments under the Plan.
Instead, the payment of all benefits to such Participant (including any Dividend
Equivalents from the Plan) shall occur as a lump sum payment on the first
business day which is 6 months and 10 days after the Participant’s last day as a
member of the Board. In the event of such Participant’s death prior to receipt
of the benefits, the Participant’s Beneficiary shall be paid the benefits on the
first business day which is 6 months and 10 days after the Participant’s last
day as a member of the Board.

 

6.   CHANGES IN STOCK. In the event of any change in the outstanding shares of
the Common Stock, or in the number thereof, by reason of any stock dividend or
split, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, exchange of shares or other
similar change, a corresponding change will be made in the number of Common
Stock Equivalents and Dividend Equivalents, if any, credited to each Account,
unless the Committee determines otherwise.

 

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7.   ACCELERATION. The Committee, in its sole discretion, may accelerate the
payment of benefits hereunder to any Participant or his or her Beneficiary for
reasons of changes in tax laws or in the event of a Change in Control of the
Company; provided that no payment of benefits may be accelerated hereunder to
any Participant or his or her Beneficiary if such Participant was a director of
the Company on or after November 1, 1990.

 

An exception is provided for any Non-Employee Director if any income tax laws to
which he or she is subject would cause him/her to be immediately taxed on
amounts credited under the Plan. Under this exception, the requirement that age
70 be attained before a Non-Employee Director becomes a Participant is
automatically waived by the Committee. Additionally, under this exception, the
payment of all benefits under the Plan shall occur on the first business day
which is 6 months and 10 days after the earlier of a Participant’s resignation
from the Board or death. In the event of such Non-Employee Director’s death,
either while still an active member of the Board or after resignation from the
Board but before receipt of payment from the Plan, payment shall be made to the
Participant’s Beneficiary on the above referenced date.

 

8.   CHANGE IN CONTROL. Upon, or in reasonable anticipation of, a Change in
Control (as defined above), the Company shall immediately make a payment in cash
to a trustee on such terms as the Senior Vice President, Human Resources, and
Administration and the Senior Vice President, Finance, or either of them, shall
deem appropriate (including such terms as are appropriate to cause such payment,
if possible, not to be a taxable event to Participants) of a sufficient amount
to insure that Participants receive the payment of all amounts as contemplated
under the Plan.

 

9.   GENERAL PROVISIONS. The entire cost of benefits and administrative expenses
for this Plan shall be paid by the Company. This Plan is purely voluntary on the
part of the Company. The Company, by action of the Board or, except as limited
by the Company’s bylaws, the Committee, may amend, suspend or terminate this
Plan in whole or part at any time, but no such amendment, suspension or
termination shall adversely affect the rights of any Non-Employee Director or
Beneficiary of a deceased Non-Employee Director with respect to Common Stock

 

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Equivalents and Dividend Equivalents credited prior to such amendment,
suspension or termination or Dividend Equivalents which would otherwise have
been credited in the future with respect to Common Stock Equivalents credited
prior to such amendment, suspension or termination.

 

No rights under the Plan may be transferred or assigned except that a
Participant may designate, in writing filed with the Secretary of the Company,
his spouse or children, a trustee or his or her executor or executrix as
Beneficiary to receive any unpaid amounts under the Plan after the death of the
Participant. In the absence of any such designation or in the event that the
designated person or entity shall not be in existence at the time a payment
under the Plan comes due, the Beneficiary of the Participant shall be the
Participant’s legal representative

 

As Amended February 20, 2002

 

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