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     3. Place of Work. The Employee shall be employed at ZoningIndustrial de Feluy, B-7181, Feluy, Belgium.     4. Remuneration. The Employee’s gross monthly salary shall be 483,040Belgian francs. This salary, less applicable withholdings and deductions, shall be paidby transfer to his bank or postal checking account. The annual incentive payout targetwill be 35% of your annual base salary.     Any bonuses, gifts, or other payment that the Company may grant or made to theEmployee from time to time, and even on a regular basis, in its absolute discretionandwithout an obligation under law, a collective bargaining agreement or this contract,shall not form part of the Employee’s contractual remuneration. The granting of such abonus or the making of such a gift or other payment shall not create a right to receivesuch bonus, gift, or payment in the future.     The salary will be reviewed annually for adjustment.     5. Expenses. The Company shall reimburse the Employee from timeto time for the reasonable expenses incurred by the employee in connection with theperformance of his obligations hereunder.     6. Working Time. The Employee shall occupy a position of trustand shalltherefore not be subject to the rules on overtime. The remuneration set forth inpoint 4 above shall compensate the employee for all services rendered during andoutside normal working hours.     7. Conflict of Interest. The Employee agrees during the termof this contract to devote all his working time and all his efforts to the interests ofthe Company, to accept no other employment, and to engage in no outside activity thatwould in any way conflict with or prejudice his responsibilities to the Company.
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     8. Return Materials. The Employee agrees to return to theCompany, at its request and in any event upon the termination of this contract, alldocumentation, correspondence, and reports and all materials, tools, and equipmentthat may have been made available to him by the Company.     9. Company Rules and Policies. The Employee agrees to complywith all rules, regulations, directives, and instructions that the Company mayestablish for the proper conduct of its business.     10. Confidentiality. All information, including customerlists, technical, commercial, and financial information, payroll data,specifications, reports, and other information of any kind, directly or indirectlyrelated to the business of the Company, disclosed to the Employee by the Company orby any of its employees, directors, statutory auditors or outside consultants, orwith which the Employee becomes acquainted while in the employ of the Company,shall be treated as confidential information.     The Employee shall at all times, both during his employment and after thetermination thereof, keep such confidential information secret and refrain fromdisclosing it in any way or for any purpose whatsoever and from using it in any mannerfor his own benefit or for the benefit of any person other than the Company.     11. Termination with Cause. The Company reserves the right toterminate this agreement at any time, without prior notice or indemnity, in theevent of misconduct by the Employee, including insubordination, use of physicalviolence, repeated unjustified absence or tardiness, refusal to carry out dutiesproperly assigned to him, disclosure of confidential information relating to theCompany or giving false or misleading information to the Company either before orafter the signature of this contract.     12. Non-compete. For a period of two years immediately followingthe termination of this contract, within the limits of the legal provisions and thecollective bargaining agreements in effect, the Employee shall not directly orindirectly, alone or as
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a member of a partnership, or as an officer, director, employee, or shareholder in anycompany whose activities are similar to those of the Company, or otherwise, engage inEurope or in the United States of America or in any other area in which Calgon Carbonor any of its subsidiaries conduct business or in which Calgon Carbon or any of itssubsidiaries customers are located.     Unless the Company waives completely the effective application of this clausewithin fifteen (15) days of the termination of the Contract**,**the Company shall pay tothe Employee an indemnity equivalent to one half of his gross remuneration for the lastmonth of employment with the Company, multiplied by the number of months for which thisclause is applicable.     Should the Employee fail to respect his obligation under this Article, theEmployee shall be obliged to reimburse to the Company the amount which has been paid bythe Company pursuant to the previous paragraph and in addition, shall be obliged to payto the Company a lump sum amount equal to the amount of said reimbursement, withoutprejudice to the Company’s right to claim a higher amount as determined by.actual injury suffered.     Signed in duplicate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 21, 2000, eachparty acknowledging receipt of an original.               /s/ Robert W. Courson II  Employee  Company      
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