MASCO CORPORATION DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE STANDARDS

As specified in Masco’s Corporate Governance Guidelines, a majority of the Board shall qualify under the independence and experience requirements of applicable law and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The Board will make a determination regarding the independence of each director annually based on all relevant facts and circumstances at the time the determination is made. The Board, pursuant to the recommendation of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, has also adopted the following categorical standards to assist it in making a determination of independence.

1. A director who is an employee, or whose immediate family member is an executive officer, of the Company is not independent until three years after the end of such employment relationship.
   
2. A director who received, or whose immediate family member received, during any twelve-month period within the last three years, more than $100,000 in direct compensation from the Company, other than director and committee fees and pension or other forms of deferred compensation for prior service (provided such compensation is not contingent in any way on continued service) is not independent.
3. (i) A director who is, or whose immediate family member is, a current partner of a firm that is the Company’s internal or external auditor; (ii) a director who is a current employee of such firm; (iii) a director who has an immediate family member who is a current employee of such a firm and who participates in the firm’s audit, assurance or tax compliance (but not tax planning) practice; or (iv) a director who was or whose immediate family member was within the last three years (but is no longer) a partner or employee of such a firm and personally worked on the Company’s audit within that time, is not independent.
4. A director who is, or whose immediate family member is, employed as an executive officer of another company where any of the Company’s present executive officers at the same time serves or served on the other company’s compensation committee, is not independent until three years after the end of the employment relationship.
5. A director who is a current employee, or who beneficially owns more than a 10% equity interest in, or whose immediate family member is a current executive officer, of a corporation, partnership or other business entity, that has made payments to, or received payments from, the Company for property or services in an amount which, in any of the last three fiscal years, exceeds the greater of $1 million, or 2% of the other company’s consolidated gross revenues, is not independent.
6. A director who is, or whose immediate family member is, an executive officer of and is active in the day to day operations of a non-profit organization that has received contributions from the Company (cash, in-kind or in the form of product discounts), that exceed the greater of $1 million or 2% of the organization’s consolidated gross revenues in any of the last three fiscal years is not independent.

“Immediate family member” includes a person’s spouse, parents, children, siblings, mothers and fathers-in-law, sons and daughters-in-law, brothers and sisters-in-law, and anyone (other than domestic employees) who shares such person’s home.

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  • CHARTER OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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  • CHARTER OF THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND NOMINATING
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  • CODE OF BUSINESS ETHICS
  • CORPORATE GOVERNANCE GUIDELINES
  • DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE STANDARDS
  • RELATED PERSON TRANSACTION POLICY