U.S. and Canada Participants (employees who are on the U.S. or Canadian payroll system):

U. S. Severance Plan. Employee is eligible to receive under The Dow Chemical Company U.S. Severance Plan (the “Severance Plan”): # a lump sum severance payment of $788,829.00 (less deductions or withholdings required by law or by agreement between the Parties and any outstanding amounts Employee owes to the Company, including but not limited to any outstanding balance owed on any housing or relocation loans), and # any other additional benefits that are available to the Employee under the Severance Plan.

U.S. Government Securities, in each case maturing within one (1) year from the date of acquisition thereof;

U.S. Dollars, Canadian dollars, pounds sterling, euros, the national currency of any participating member state of the European Union or, in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, such local currencies held by it from time to time in the ordinary course of business;

“U.C.C.” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

U.S. dollar denominated time deposits, certificates of deposit and bankers’ acceptances of # any Lender, # any domestic commercial bank of recognized standing having capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 or # any bank (or the parent company of such bank) whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least A-1, A-2 or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is at least P-1, P-2 or the equivalent thereof (any such bank, an “Approved Bank”), in each case with maturities of not more than 90 days from the date of acquisition;

U.S. Real Property Holding Corporation. The Company is not and has never been a U.S. real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Company shall so certify upon Purchaser’s request.

The U.K. Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole discretion may request, no later than 12:00 p.m. (London time), on any Business Day, on behalf of the applicable U.K. Borrower(s) (and the U.K. Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorize the U.K. Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each U.K. Lender make # with respect to U.K. Swing Line Loans denominated in Dollars, a U.K. Revolving Loan that is a Eurodollar Rate Loan (with in Interest Period of one (1) month) in an amount equal to such U.K. Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the amount of the U.K. Swing Line Lender’s U.K. Swing Line Loans denominated in Dollars then outstanding, # with respect to U.K. Swing Line Loans denominated in Euros, a U.K. Revolving Loan that is an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan (with in Interest Period of one (1) month) denominated in Euro in an amount equal to such U.K. Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the amount of the U.K. Swing Line Lender’s U.K. Swing Line Loans denominated in Euros then outstanding, and # with respect to U.K. Swing Line Loans denominated in Sterling, a U.K. Revolving Loan that is an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan denominated in Sterling in an amount equal to such U.K. Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the amount of the U.K. Swing Line Lender’s U.K. Swing Line Loans denominated in Sterling then outstanding. Such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a U.K. Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of U.K. Revolving Loans but subject to the unutilized portion of the Aggregate U.K. Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. The U.K. Swing Line Lender shall furnish the applicable U.K. Borrower(s) with a copy of the applicable U.K. Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each U.K. Lender shall make an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage of the amount specified in such U.K. Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral available with respect to the applicable U.K. Swing Line Loan) for the account of the U.K. Swing Line Lender at the Head Office for the Administrative Agent for Dollar-denominated payments, Euro-denominated payments, or Sterling-denominated payments, as applicable, not later than 5:00 p.m. (London time), on the Business Day such U.K. Loan Notice is received (if such U.K. Loan Notice was received by 12:00 p.m. (London time) on such Business Day) or 10:00 a.m. (London time), on the immediately succeeding Business Day (if such U.K. Loan Notice was received after 12:00 p.m. (London time)), as applicable, whereupon, subject to [Section 2.04(c)(iii)(B)], each U.K. Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a U.K. Revolving Loan that is a U.K. Revolving Loan that is a Eurodollar Rate Loan denominated in Dollars, a U.K. Revolving Loan that is an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan denominated in Euros, or a U.K. Revolving Loan that is an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan denominated in Sterling, as applicable, to the applicable U.K. Borrower(s) in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the U.K. Swing Line Lender.

Each U.K. Lender’s obligation to make U.K. Revolving Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in U.K. Swing Line Loans pursuant to this [Section 2.04(c)(iii)] shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including # any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such U.K. Lender may have against the U.K. Swing Line Lender, any U.K. Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, # the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or # any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, that, each U.K. Lender’s obligation to make U.K. Revolving Loans pursuant to this [Section 2.04(c)(iii)] is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the U.K. Borrowers to repay U.K. Swing Line Loans, together with interest as provided herein.

The U.K. Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the applicable U.K. Borrowers for interest on the applicable U.K. Swing Line Loans. Until each U.K. Lender funds its U.K. Revolving Loan or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such U.K. Lender’s Applicable Percentage of any U.K. Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Applicable Percentage shall be solely for the account of the U.K. Swing Line Lender.