-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, B/c4ZR0cWeAo9NcbqYRyQuZRhO/iihnWB1QstoevFpAdQfHdJNpYwqmgktMgkZ4d U9ThRizEdOfFzNrVqbj4Xw== 0000009892-07-000029.txt : 20070228 0000009892-07-000029.hdr.sgml : 20070228 20070228103238 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000009892-07-000029 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070226 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070228 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070228 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BARD C R INC /NJ/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000009892 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SURGICAL & MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS & APPARATUS [3841] IRS NUMBER: 221454160 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 1204 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 730 CENTRAL AVE CITY: MURRAY HILL STATE: NJ ZIP: 07974 BUSINESS PHONE: 9082778000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 730 CENTRAL AVENUE CITY: MURRAY HILL STATE: NJ ZIP: 07974 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: LONG STEPHEN J CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001390962 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-06926 FILM NUMBER: 07655605 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 908 277 8269 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C R BARD INC STREET 2: 730 CENTRAL AVENUE CITY: MURRAY HILL STATE: NJ ZIP: 07974 3 1 primary_doc.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0202 3 2007-02-26 0 0000009892 BARD C R INC /NJ/ BCR 0001390962 LONG STEPHEN J C R BARD INC 730 CENTRAL AVENUE MURRAY HILL NJ 07974 0 1 0 0 VP,General Counsel & Secretary Common Stock 6457.323 D Common Stock 240.652 I 401(k) Plan Option (Right to Buy) 26.0125 2012-07-10 Common Stock 8750 D Option (Right to Buy) 35.71 2013-07-09 Common Stock 15500 D Option (Right to Buy) 54.965 2014-07-14 Common Stock 6750 D Option (Right to Buy) 66.795 2015-07-13 Common Stock 8000 D Option (Right to Buy) 73.99 2016-07-12 Common Stock 5780 D Includes 2.384 shares held in the Company's Dividend Reinvestment Plan as of February 26, 2007. Includes 294.9386 shares held in the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan as of February 26, 2007. Held as of February 26, 2007. Performance options granted under the 1993 Long Term Incentive Plan of C. R. Bard, Inc. Options vest in accordance with schedule upon achievement of certain performance criteria or fully vest in five years. Performance options granted under the 2003 Long Term Incentive Plan of C. R. Bard, Inc. (As Amended and Restated). Jean Miller, Attorney-in-Fact 2007-02-28 EX-24 2 poalong.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY POWER OF ATTORNEY

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Jean Miller and Brian Burlew, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of C. R. Bard, Inc. (the "Company"), forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 22nd day of February,2007

/s/Stephen J. Long

Signature

Stephen J. Long

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