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Tripod AGM Information 2019

Jun 21, 2019

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

2019 Annual Shareholders' Meeting Meeting Handbook

Date: June 21, 2019 Venue: No. 261, Nan Fung Road, Pingzhen District, Taoyuan City Meeting Room of the Industrial Park Management Center, Pingzhen District

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Meeting Procedure..............................................................................................................1
Chapter 2 Meeting Agenda..................................................................................................................2
Chapter 3 Report Items
I. 2018 Business Report ............................................................................................3
II. Audit Committee's Review Report on the 2018 Final Statement ...........................3
III. External Endorsement/Guarantee and Loan of Funds ............................................3
IV. The 2018 Employee Remuneration and Remuneration to Directors Report .........4
V. Amendments to Rules and Procedures for Board of Directors Meetings ..............4
Chapter 4 Ratification Items
I. 2018 Final Statement ..............................................................................................5
II. Proposal for the Appropriation of 2018 Net Income ..............................................5
Chapter 5 Discussion Items:
I. Amendments to Some Provisions of the Company's Operating Procedures for
Acquisition or Disposal of Assets .........................................................................6
II. Amendments to Some Provisions of the Company's Operating Procedures for
Financial Derivatives Transactions .......................................................................6
III. Amendments to Some Provisions of the Company's Regulations Governing the
Management of Endorsement and Guarantee ........................................................6
IV. Amendments to Some Provisions of the Operating Procedures for Lending Funds
to Other Parties .......................................................................................................6
Chapter 6 Extempore Motions............................................................................................................6
Chapter 7 Attachments
I. 2018 Business Report .............................................................................................7
II. Audit Report by Audit Committee .......................................................................12
III. Rules and Procedures for Board of Directors' Meetings ......................................13
IV. 2018 Final Statement ...........................................................................................17
V. Proposal for the Appropriation of 2018 Net Income ...........................................39
VI. Comparison Table for the Operating Procedures for the Acquisition and Disposal
of Assets Before and After Revision ....................................................................40
VII. Comparison Table for the Operating Procedures for Financial Derivatives
Transactions Before and After Revision .............................................................59
VIII. Comparison Table for the Regulations Governing the Management of
Endorsement and Guarantee Before and After Revision ....................................62
IX. Comparison Table for the Procedures for Lending Funds to Other Parties Before
and After Revision ................................................................................................66
Chapter 8 Appendices
I. Articles of Association .........................................................................................70
II. The Operating Procedures for Acquisition or Disposal of Assets (Before
Revision) ..............................................................................................................75
III. The Operating Procedures for Derivative Products (Before Revision) ................85
IV. The Regulations Governing the Management of Endorsement and Guarantee
(Before Revision) .................................................................................................88
V. The Operating Procedures for Lending Funds to Other Parties (Before Revision)
..............................................................................................................................92
VI. The Rules and Procedure for Shareholders' Meetings ..........................................96
VII. Information on Employee Remuneration and Remuneration to Directors ..........98
VIII. The Impact of Stock dividend Issuance on Business Performance, EPS, and
Shareholder Rate of Return ..................................................................................98
IX. Current Shareholding of Individual and All Directors and Supervisors Registered
on Shareholders' Meeting Agenda Handbooks ....................................................99

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION Procedure for the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

  • I. Announcement of Meeting

  • II. Chairman's Address

  • III. Report Items

  • IV. Ratification Items

  • V. Discussion Items

  • VI. Extempore Motions

  • VII. Adjournment

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

2019 Annual Shareholders' Meeting Agenda

I. Announcement of Meeting (Attendance in Shares)

II. Chairman's Address

III. Report Items:

  1. 2018 Business Report

  2. Audit Committee's Review Report on the 2018 Final Statement

  3. External Endorsement/Guarantee and Loan of Funds

  4. The 2018 Employee Remuneration and Remuneration to Directors Report

  5. Amendments to Rules and Procedures for Board of Directors Meetings

IV. Ratification Items

  1. 2018 Final Statement

  2. Proposal for the Appropriation of 2018 Net Income

V. Discussion Items:

  1. Amendments to Some Provisions of the Company's Operating Procedures for Acquisition or Disposal of Assets

  2. Amendments to Some Provisions of the Company's Operating Procedures for Derivative Product Transactions

  3. Amendments to the Company's Regulations Governing the Management of Endorsement and Guarantee

  4. Amendments to Some Provisions of the Operating Procedures for Lending Funds to Other Parties

VI. Extempore Motions

VII. Adjournment

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Report Items

I. 2018 Business Report

Please refer to Attachment 1 (page 7-11) for details.

II. Audit Committee's Review Report on the 2018 Final Statement

  1. The Company's financial statements for 2018 were audited by Mr. Chen, Chung Chen, and Mr. Chang, Keng Hsi, of Deloitte & Touche. The final reports, including Financial Statements, Business Reports and proposal for allocation of earnings, have been reviewed by the Audit Committee and hereby submitted the Review Report.

  2. Please refer to Attachment 4 (page 17-21) for the Independent Audits’ Report.

  3. Please refer to Attachment 2 (page 12) for the Audit Committee's Review Report.

III. Report of the Company's External Endorsements/Guarantees Provided and Financing Provided

  1. Endorsements/Guarantees Provided Items:

(Units: In thousands of NT$)

Endorser/
Guarantor
Endorsee/Guarantee Endorsee/Guarantee Outstanding
Endorsement/
Guarantee at the
End of 2018
Ratio of Accumulated
Endorsement/Guarantee to Net
Equity in the Financial
Statements of the Period
Name Relationship
Tripod (Wuxi)
Electronic Co.,Ltd.
Tripod (Wuxi)
Electronic Co.,Ltd.
Self (Note 1) -
Tripod (Hubei)
Electronic Co.,Ltd.
Tripod (Hubei)
Electronic Co.,Ltd.
Self (Note 2) -

Note 1: The amounts that Tripod (Wuxi) Electronic Co., Ltd. guaranteed to itself for tariffs is RMB$23,500 thousand. Note 2: The amounts that Tripod (Hubei) Electronic Co., Ltd. guaranteed to itself for tariffs is RMB$30,000 thousand.

2. Financing Provided Items:

Unit: thousand NT$

Lender Borrower Balance of
Financing Provided
at the End of 2018
(Note)
Reasons of
Short-term
Financing
Relationship with the
Borrower
J&J Holding Co.,
Ltd.
Tripod Overseas
Co., Ltd.
492,054 The need for
financing
operatingcapital
Subsidiary 100% share held by
J & J Holding Co., Ltd,
subsidiaryof the Company
Tripod Overseas
Co., Ltd.
Trison
Technology (HK)
Limited
30,715 The need for
financing
operatingcapital
Subsidiary 100% share held by
the Company
Tripod Overseas
Co., Ltd.
Tripod (Wuxi)
Electronic Co.,
Ltd.
2,610,775 The need for
financing
operating capital
Subsidiary 100% share held by
Tripod International Holding
Pte. Ltd, subsidiary of the
Company
Tripod Overseas
Co., Ltd.
Tripod (Hubei)
Electronic Co.,
Ltd.
5,344,410 The need for
financing
operatingcapital
Subsidiary 100% share held by
Worldwide Holding Pte. Ltd,
subsidiaryof the Company
Tripod (Wuxi)
Electronic Co.,
Ltd.
Tripod (Hubei)
Electronic Co.,
Ltd.
759,426 The need for
financing
operatingcapital
Subsidiary 100% share held by
Worldwide Holding Pte. Ltd,
subsidiaryof the Company

Note: The highest balance for the period and ending balance represented above are listed in New Taiwan dollars. The highest balance denominated in foreign currencies is translated using the highest prevailing exchange rate; and the ending balance is translated into NTD using the exchange rate as of December 31, 2018: USD/NTD=30.715 and RMB/NTD=4.46721.

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IV. 2018 Employees’ Compensation and Remuneration of Directors Report

  • In accordance with the Company’s Articles of Incorporation No.32, the Company allocated $42,000,000 remuneration of directors and $590,341,864 employees’ compensation. The aforementioned amount was approved by the Company’s board of directors on February 26, 2019, and should all be distributed in cash.

V. Amendments to Rules and Procedures for Board of Directors Meetings

  1. In line with the establishment of the Audit Committee, the Company's “Rules and Procedures for Board of Directors Meetings” are amended.

  2. Please refer to Attachment 3 (page 13-16).

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Ratification Items

Proposal 1

Proposed by the Board

Proposal: To accept 2018 Final Statements

Explanation:

  • I. The Company's 2018 Standalone Financial Statements and the Consolidated Financial Statements have been approved by the Board of Directors and audited by Mr. Chen, Chung Chen CPA and Mr. Chang, Keng Hsi, CPA from Deloitte & Touche.

  • II. The above financial statements and business reports have been reviewed by the Audit Committee.

  • III. The above statements refer to Attachment 4 (page 17-38).

  • IV. Please proceed to be hereby ratified.

Resolution:

Proposal 2

Proposed by the Board

Proposal: To approve the proposal for distribution of 2018 earnings Explanation:

  • I. The Company's unappropriated retained earnings as of 2018 was NT$17,730,432,193. After the effect of retrospective application and retrospective restatement NT$30,166,003 and the remeasurement of defined benefit plans recognized in retained earnings, the Company had the adjusted retained earnings of NT$2,651,321, and the restatement of NT$17,763,249,517 at the beginning of 2018.

  • II. The Company's net profit after tax for 2018 was NT$4,938,397,367. After setting aside NT$493,839,737 as legal reserve and NT$488,628,685 as special reserve in accordance with the laws, the balance is NT$3,955,928,945. Adding the undistributed retained earnings at the beginning of the reporting period of NT$17,763,249,517, the distributable earnings in the current period is NT$21,719,178,462. NT$3,101,074,798, should be distributed as bonuses to shareholders (shareholders' share dividends are cash dividends at NT$5.90 per share, rounded down to the nearest dollar, and the sum of the fractional balance is recognized as the Company's other income). For the proposal of distribution of earnings for 2018, refer to attachment 5 (Page 39).

  • III. After this resolution has been approved by the Shareholder's Meeting, the Board -

  • of Directors proposed to authorize the Chairman to stipulate the ex dividend date, issuance date and other related matters, which shall be announced according to the law.

Resolution:

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Discussion Items

Proposal 1 Proposed by the of Directors

Proposal: Amendments to Some Provisions of the Company's Operating Procedures for Acquisition or Disposal of Assets Explanation: According to the Letter of Financial Supervisory Commission dated November 26, 2018 issued by the Financial Supervisory Commission (No.1070341072), the Company's operating procedures for acquisition or disposal of assets are amended. Please refer to Attachment 6 (Page 40-58) for the comparison table of the amended provisions.

Resolution:

Proposal 2 Proposed by the Board Proposal: Amendments to Some Provisions of the Company's Operating Procedures for Financial Derivatives Disposal. Explanation: According to the Letter of Financial Supervisory Commission dated November 26, 2018 issued by the Financial Supervisory Commission (Letter No. 1070341072), the Company intends to amend the Company's operating procedures for derivative product transactions. Please refer to Attachment 7 (Page 59-61) for the comparison table of the amended provisions.

Resolution:

Proposal 3 Proposed by the Board

Proposal: Amendment to Some Provisions of the Company's Regulations Governing the Endorsements and Guarantees. Explanation: According to the letter of the Financial Supervisory Commission (Letter No. 1080304826) dated March 7, 2019, the Company proposed to amend some provisions of the Company's Regulations Governing the Management of Endorsements and Guarantees. Please refer to Attachment 8 (Page 62-65) for the comparison table of the amended provisions.

Resolution:

Proposal 4 Proposed by the Board Proposal: Amendments to Some Provisions of the Operating Procedures for Financing Provided. Explanation: According to the Letter of Credit-Supervisory-Securities-Financial Supervisory Commission (No. 1080304826) issued by the Financial Supervisory Commission on March 7, 2019, the Company intends to amend some provisions of the Company's Operating Procedures for Financing Provided .Please refer to Attachment 9 (Page 66-69) for the comparison table of the amended provisions.

Resolution:

Extempore Motions

Adjournment

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Attachment 1

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Business Report

(I) 2018 Business Report

  1. Implementation results of business plan
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Implementation results
Business Report
of business plan
Item (thousand NT$) 2018 Year 2017 Year Change in
percentage
Consolidated
operating revenue
52,105,683 45,818,601 13.72%
Consolidated
operating profit
9,764,495 8,354,941 16.87%
Consolidated net profit
before tax
6,525,273 5,542,748 17.73%
Consolidated net profit 4,938,525 4,365,599 13.12%

2. Budget implementation

The major product of the Company are printed circuit boards, and with the main production bases located at Pingzhen Taoyuan Plant, Wuxi Plant, Jiangsu and Xiantao Plant, Hubei. The estimated sales volume of the Company for 2018 was 102,000 thousand sq. ft., while total actual sales volume in 2018 was 96,262,000 sq. ft.

  1. Consolidated financial income and expenditure and profitability analysis
Analysis Item 2018 2017
Financial
Structure
Debt-asset Ratio (%) 54.65 56.25
The ratio of long-term capital
to real estateplant and equipment%
197.56 207.82
Debt-paying
ability
Current ratio (%) 140.99 139.37
Quick ratio (%) 116.81 119.90
Interest coverage ratio 20.66 26.16
Profitability Return on assets (%) 7.34 6.81
Shareholders' return on equity (%) 15.64 14.48
Income before tax to paid-up capital ratio (%) 124.14 105.45
Net profit margin (%) 9.47 9.52
Earnings per share (NT$) - tracking 9.40 8.31
  1. Research and development status

Looking forward to 2019, IDC has provided 10 key trends:

In AI:

  • (1). The dialogue platform will be integrated with robotics program automation (RPA), with the application in the process of personalized recommendations, automatic file inspection, work automation, labor enhancement and entertainment application services.

  • (2). The Company will establish an application platform for smart terminals, AI peripheral computing, machine learning, laying a foundation for the “smart”

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ecosystem in the future.

  • (3). Artificial intelligence, quantum computers, final-end small-micro chemical and energy sources represent the important development trends and opportunities for the “environmental intelligence”.

An emphasis of product speed and virtual integration:

  • (1). With the development of micro service framework, the Service Mesh appears to improve the Company's agility in software development, testing, deployment and updating.

  • (2). The cloud-based information technology has been fully transformed. It is -

  • expected that by year 2023, 33% of super large enterprises in Taiwan will assess open virtual framework and 28% of large enterprises adopt the cloud-based collaborative development environment, and 40% of enterprises have its own - -

  • computer centers or deploy original cloud end technology on cutting edge system.

  • (3). The digital twin creates the core value for the enterprise. It's expected that the manufacturing industry will gradually enter the digital twin era to solve inconsistency between mass production and customization, while the service industry is the next application industry to optimize customer experience and improve service efficiency.

  • (4). We deploy 5G market and seek the application demands from the vertical market on a basis of 3D, VR/AR, 4K/8K or holographic projection services. It is expected that the telecom industry will start to employ standalone (SA) network in 2020, with the introduction of 5G base station with high, medium and low frequencies, network slicing and other technology. The fully-automatic smart-powered plant, remote smart medical treatment, driving and transportation system will appear successively.

Changes in corporate thinking:

  • (1). The security protection mindset is being initiated. The "Threat Life Cycle Management" services are provided, including information security tests before and after the threat, threat intelligence, event response exercises and online security training.

  • (2). The innovative work model is designed to transform the Company's talent and production process by using mobile devices, smart assistants, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence, and more human resources and production processes.

  • (3). The value-added services have been demonstrated, and the printer hardware manufacturers will replace the channel and become the provider of corporate services. The “Print-as-a-service (print value-added services”) is expected to become a trend in the future printing industry. This is a shift of the content of the printing contract and changes in the standard of payment. Information security and smart learning become new sales points.

From the overall industry development, the PCB is expected to focus on the following development trends:

  • (1). In addition to light weight and shorter/smaller trend, the smart portable products -

  • will also be highly refined in terms of the design of lines and highly interconnected connectivity. In response to the 5G trends, the products will also pose higher requirements for alignment, flatness of plate surface and coplanarity of welding pad, and low Dk, low Df, low CTE and other features in materials.

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  • (2). The high frequency antennas and high frequency transmission lines have been designed to raise the requirements for PCB SI (Signal integrity) and RF (Radio frequency), including selection of Dk, Df materials, antenna graphics and signal line formation capabilities, characteristic impedance control, RF, signal loss and other consideration.

  • (3). We face several major challenges, including the high density multi layered - -

  • laminate, the design of the high density multi layered plates, along with SI consideration, selection of materials, and requirements for the accuracy and the ability to deploy the circuit under thick copper.

  • (4). Micro, multi functional and high density integration is the development trend of electronic products, while PCB is required of being high density, integrated, packaging, fine-tuned and multi-layer. PCB products, such as HDI boards, - -

  • Flexible board, Rigid Flex board, Semi Flex board, Cavity board, IC packaging boards (BGA, CSP), have become a main trend.

  • (5). The top 5G products, new energy vehicles and DCDC Converter products mainly requires heat dissipation and high current load, and the application and -

  • development of the copper and heat dissipating materials, while PI (Power Integrity) Converter is also one of important considerations.

  • (6). For the 5G antenna, automotive Radar and various sensing products, their management and control capability in material and antenna pattern will be challenging and critical to the product success.

In response to this trend, the Company is committed to full development in the following aspects: A. product development, B. process yield improvement and stability, C. new process technology and equipment material evaluation, and D. industry and academia cooperation development.

(II) Summary of Business Plan for the Current Year

1. Operating policies

  • (1). Despite the industry recovery, with the launched new application products and growing demand, the global economy is constantly changing. We should cautiously catch up with the industry economic development and strictly control the risks brought by product development and the volatility of the raw materials and exchange rates.

  • (2). Specialized in PCB, the Company will continuously diversify the application development of terminal products, mitigate the capacity risk, assist customers in risk transfer and establish the core competitiveness based on long-term customer trust.

  • (3). The Company will continue to expand its market development and technical capabilities in the field of product and process, and cooperate with the customers to expand the fields of raw materials and products in order to build value differentiation among competitors.

  • (4). We will continue to strengthen recruitment and training programs, implement talent cultivation and improve professional organization and management capabilities, effectively manage the turnover of direct personnel, enhance production efficiency and strengthen production efficiency and reliability.

  • (5). In response to the continuous increase in labor costs and labor shortage, we will properly arrange for various production facilities and human resources, and seek the optimal model of resources to increase production efficiency by increasing

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new automated equipment and add new production capacities in line with the market demand.

  • (6). We will also stabilize staff turnover, build the technology talent pool, and develop the technology in niche product market.

  • (7). In consideration of trade tensions and uncertain policies, we prudently assess operating risks and evaluate the branch operation.

  • Estimated sales volume and supporting info

The main products of the Company are printed circuit boards, and the production capacity is estimated to be approximately 102,000,000 square feet in the current year.

  1. Important production and sales policies

  2. (1). With great changes in customer demands at the final-end and product application in the industry, we prudently plan the capacity expansion and achieve most effective long-term stable business model through improving company-wide capacity utilization ratio, to reduce the risk of customers and product dependence and maintain product diversification for customers.

  3. (2). In response to the diversified customer product line, it is effective to adopt information system management and strictly strengthen the production discipline to promptly control the production progress and changes in customer delivery, reduce inventory and maximize the production and sales revenues.

  4. (3). We will continuously improve process capability and yield, keep leading advantages in production capacity and cost, and enhance production flexibility to maintain delivery accuracy.

  5. (4). We will collect and analyze the potential market growth and the pattern of future product technologies, and provide continuous investment in new production capacity and equipment.

  6. (5). The Company will enhance production process capabilities to maximize the advantages of economies of scale to compete with peers with large-scale production of single products and flexible delivery.

  7. (6). By capitalizing on self-built capacity and adjacent plants, we will share resources across plants and improve capacity utilization in response to extreme changes in the single product industry.

  8. (7). Facing the slow growth of market demand for some terminal products, in addition to reasonably improving market share of existing customers, we will continuously develop new product customers, so as to maintain turnover and profitability.

(III) Future development strategies

  1. The Company has always been committed to the environmental protection, occupational safety and health management, social ethics responsibility and corporate governance, and actively reduced environmental pollution, product hazards and energy consumption problems, and devoted to becoming a sustainable green enterprise.

  2. PCB increasingly faces operating threats, including the increase of raw material prices, fluctuations in exchange rates, strengthened environmental protection regulations, increase in wages costs, labor shortage and the rapid rise of the peer competition and continuous expansion in production capacity. Facing the unstable economic conditions, the operating strategy is focused on broaden sources of income and reduce expenditure

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effectively.

  1. As the market size remains large, we will expand capacity, stabilize and expand revenues to increase the market share by strengthening the management competitiveness. We will carefully evaluate and execute the capital expenditure plans.

  2. We will continuously implement operating strategies formulated by the management of the Company:

  3. Committed to the mutual win between customer and the Company.

  4. Committed to the mutual win between employees and the Company.

  5. Committed to the mutual win between manufacturers and the Company.

  6. Committed to the mutual win between shareholders and the Company.

  7. Committed to the mutual win between the society and corporate social responsibility.

(IV) Impact from the external competition, the laws and regulations, and the overall business environment:

1. External Competitive Environment:

The Company faces the competition from a large number of competitors, and the bargaining power is relatively weak with customers. The Company will effectively diversify the product customers, production and inventory costs, which is a condition for the Company to continuously respond to pressure from unfavorable conditions such as price reduction and shortened order visibility. Affected by uncertain factors of global economic development, product demand variability increases, and raw material price changes greatly, making it difficult to control manufacturing costs.

2. Regulatory Environment:

Driven by the environmental protection laws, tax adjustment and wage raise policies, in order to meet the increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, in addition to actively reducing environmental pollution from industrial processes, following proper tax planning and improving automation production capacity, we make efforts on solving the problem of energy and capital consumption, so as to reduce the operating pressure of the industry.

3. Overall Operating Environment:

The IMF (2019/04) estimates that the global economy is expected to maintain a growth rate of 3.3% in 2019. Due to the uncertainty of global political and economic - conditions, the demand for industrial final end consumption is uncertain. We need to prudently respond to the changes in the global manufacturing demand and industry demand. To adapt to such changes, maintain the Company's sustained growth, continuously improve operating efficiency and flexibility, as well as respond to the rapidly changing economic situation by developing niche products and enhance the proportion of new electronic products with high added value, so as to create a new momentum for the Company's sustained growth.

Chairman: Wang, Chiang-Chuang

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Attachment 2

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION Audit Committee’s Review Report

The Board of Directors has submitted the Company's 2018 final report and statements, which have been audited by the CPAs of Deloitte & Touche with the Audit Report issued. The above-mentioned final report has been reviewed by the Audit Committee, with no discrepancy found, and in compliance with Article 14-4 of the Securities and Exchange Act and Article 219 of the Company Act. Please proceed to examine. Sincerely,

2019 Annual Shareholders' Meeting

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Audit Committee: Tai, Hsing-Cheng

Wu, Hong-Cherng

Wu, Yeong-Cheng

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Attachment 3

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Rules and Procedures for Board of Directors Meetings

  • Article 1: The Rules are hereby formulated pursuant to Article 26-3(8) of the Securities and Exchange Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act").

  • Article 2: The Company's major agenda of the Board meeting, operating procedures, particulars to be specified in the minute book, public notice and items to be complied with, shall be handled in accordance with these Rules.

  • Article 3: The Board of Directors shall meet at least once quarterly in principle. The reasons for calling a Board of Directors' Meeting shall be notified to each director and supervisor (if there is any) at least 7 days in advance. In emergency circumstances, however, a meeting may be called on a shorter notice. The Board of Directors shall convene a meeting by giving a notice in writing, or by means of fax or email. All matters set out in Article 7(1) shall be specified in the notice of the reasons for calling a Board of Directors meeting; none of them may be raised by an extempore motion.

  • Article 4: The Board of Directors shall hold a meeting at a venue and a time suitable for the Board of Directors' Meeting.

  • Article 5: The Board of Directors shall be convened on a regular basis. The Board will designate a unit to handle the administrative matters relating to the Company's Board meetings. The meeting agenda and items shall be prepared in advance. The meeting notice shall be given to all directors as per the time limit specified in the preceding provision with sufficient meeting materials provided.

  • If 2 or more directors find insufficient information regarding the Company's directors or supervisors as required by the preceding paragraph and if an independent director believes the agenda information is incomplete, the Board of Directors shall postpone the discussion of the matters.

  • When the meeting is in progress, if more than one director find the meeting materials insufficient and agreed by more than one independent director, they shall propose for postponing the discussion of such matters to the Board.

  • Article 6: The agenda for the Board of Directors meetings shall include at least the following:

  • I. Report Items: (I) Minutes of the last meeting and the implementation status. (II) Major financial reports.

  • (III) Internal audit reports and (IV) Other important reporting items.

  • II. Discussions:

    • (I) Discussion items for the last meeting. (II) Items for discussion in the meeting.
  • III. Extempore Motions

  • Article 7: The Company shall discuss the following matters:

  • I. Business plans of the Company.

  • II. Annual and semi-annual financial reports. However, this provision doesn't apply to the semi-annual financial reports, which need not be examined and certified by a certified public accountant in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations;

  • III. Adoption or amendment of an internal control system in accordance with Article 14-1 of the Act, and evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal control system.

  • IV. Adoption or amendment of the Company's procedures for handling or amendment of assets, derivative product transactions, loaning of funds to other parties, or providing guarantees for other parties in accordance with Article 36-1 of the Act.

  • V. Offering, issuance, or private placement of equity-type securities.

  • VI. Appointment and/or dismissal of financial, accounting or internal audit officers; and

  • VII. A donation to a related party or a major donation to a non-related party. However, a public-interest donation of disaster relief for a major natural disaster may be submitted to the following Board of Directors' Meeting for retroactive recognition.

  • VIII. Any matter that requires a resolution of a Shareholders’ Meeting or a Board of Directors' Meeting or any major matters as prescribed by the competent authority pursuant to Article 14-3 of the Act or the Articles of Association or other regulations.

The term "related party" in subparagraph 7 of the preceding paragraph means a related party as defined in the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers. The term "substantial donation to a non-related party" means any donation or a series of donations within a one-year period to a single recipient that, on an individual basis or cumulatively, amount to NT$100 million or more, or reach 1% of the net operating revenue or 5% of the paid-in capital as stated in the audited financial reports for the

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most recent fiscal year.

The term "within a one-year period" means the period between one year prior to the date of this Board meeting. Amount of the donations already approved by the Board should be excluded.

If the foreign company shares have no par value or a par value other than NT$10, the amount of 5% of paid-in capital in the second paragraph shall be calculated as 2.5% of shareholders' equity. If the Company has independent directors, at least one of the independent directors shall attend the Board Meeting in person. For matters that shall be submitted to the Board of Directors for a resolution as specified in paragraph 1, all independent directors shall attend the meeting. If the independent director is unable to attend the meeting in person, he/she shall appoint other Independent Directors as his/her proxy to attend the meeting. If an independent director has an objection or reservation to the Board of Directors' Meeting, it shall be recorded in the minute book of the Board meeting; if an independent director is unable to attend a meeting to express his/her objection or reservation in person, he/she shall issue a written opinion in advance, and set out in the minutes of the Board of Directors' Meeting.

Apart from matters referred to in Article 1 of the preceding paragraph, which are required to be submitted for discussion by the Board, when the Board delegates any exercise of its powers pursuant to laws or regulations of the Articles of Association, matters such as the level and substance of the delegation shall be concretely and specifically set out. The implementation shall also be reported to the Board. Article 8: When a Board of Directors' Meeting is convened, a signature book shall be available to record the signatures of directors present for reference. A Director shall attend Board Meetings in person. If he or she is unable to attend the meeting in person, he or she may attend the meeting via videoconferencing or appoint another director to attend the meeting as his or her proxy in accordance with the Company’s Articles of Association. Attendance via video conference is deemed to be attendance in person. When a Director appoints another Director to attend a Board Meeting, he or she shall, each time, issue a written proxy. The proxy form shall state therein the scope of authority of such proxy with reference to the subject matters to be discussed as listed in the Board Meeting notice. A Director's proxy as described in the second paragraph may act as a proxy for only one Director. Article 9: The Board of Directors is convened and chaired by the Chairman. However, the first Board of Directors' Meeting shall be convened by the Director who has the most votes on behalf of the Board of Shareholders, and the Chairman shall be the convener. If there are two or more conveners, the Chairman shall be elected from among themselves. In the event that the Chairman of the Board is unable to exercise his or her duties during his or her absence or for cause, the Vice Chairman shall act as his or her proxy. In the absence of the Vice Chairman or if the Vice Chairman is unable to exercise his or her duties during his or her absence or for cause, the Chairman shall appoint a Managing Director to act as his or her proxy. If the Company has no Managing Directors, a Director shall be appointed as proxy. In the absence of such appointment, the proxy shall be elected from among the Managing Directors or Directors. Article 10: The Company shall hold a Board of Directors' Meeting to notify the relevant departments or subsidiaries of the Company to be present depending on the proposal. If necessary, certified public accountants, lawyers or other professionals may be invited to attend the meeting as guests and to make explanatory statements. Provided, however, that they shall leave the meeting when discussion or voting takes place. Article 11: If the majority of the Directors are not present at the schedule commencement time of the meeting, the Chairman of the meeting may announce the postponement of the meeting not more than twice. If a quorum has not been reached after the second postponement, the Chairman may convene a new meeting in accordance with the procedure under Paragraph 2, Article 3 of these Rules. For the purpose of the term "all Directors" as used in the preceding paragraph and in Article 17, Paragraph 2, Subparagraph 2, shall refer to the Directors actually in the office at the given time. Article 12: The Board shall proceed with the procedures set out in the meeting notice. However, the change of the majority of Directors who have been agreed with the consent of a majority of the Directors present at a meeting may be changed. The Chairman shall not announce the adjournment of the meeting without the consent of the majority of the Directors present. During the Board meeting, if the number of Directors present at the meeting is not more than half of the Directors attending the meeting, the Chairman shall declare a suspension of the meeting in accordance with Paragraph 1 of the preceding article. Article 13: The Chairman may declare an end to discussion of a proposal in the agenda if he deems the proposal in discussion is ready for a vote and may then have the proposal voted on. When the Directors are deliberating a resolution to be adopted in a meeting of the Board, the resolution shall be deemed approved and voted on by the Board if all Directors present at the meeting consent to the

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passing of such resolution without raising any objection when the Chairman puts forward the relevant resolutions for approval. If, upon the Chairman proposing the relevant resolution for approval, a Director states his or her dissent, the resolution shall be voted on in the manner set out below.

Formal votes may be cast in one of the following manners as determined by the Chairman, provided, however, that when a person present at the meeting voices his or her objection, the decision shall be made according to a majority vote.

  • I. Vote by show of hands or a vote by voting machine;

  • II. Roll-call vote;

  • III. Vote by ballots;

  • IV. Any other voting method as determined by the Company;

  • V. When the Board votes for a proposal, the Chairman shall appoint counting personnel and all Directors present shall act as monitoring personnel.

All Directors present at the meeting mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs shall not be a Director who is not entitled to exercise voting rights pursuant to Paragraph 1, Article 15.

  • Article 14: Unless a higher approval threshold is required under the Securities and Exchange Act and the Company Act, a proposal to be resolved at the Company’s Board meeting shall be approved by consent of more than half of the Directors present at the meeting attended by a majority of all Directors. Results of the votes shall be announced on the spot and recorded.

  • When there is an amendment or an alternative to a proposal, the Chairman shall present the amended or alternative proposal together with the original proposal and decide the order in which they will be put to a vote. If one of the proposals is passed, the other proposals shall be deemed rejected and no further voting shall be required.

For resolutions of the Board of Directors, if the Company is required to comply with laws and regulations and the major messages stipulated by the competent authority, the Company shall transfer the contents to the Market Observation Post System (MOPS) within the prescribed time.

  • Article 15: If a Director is in any of the following circumstances related to matters to be discussed at the meeting, he/she shall not participate in the discussion and voting on the proposal and shall abstain himself or herself from discussion and voting on the proposal and cannot exercise the voting right for and on behalf of another Director.

  • I. For any proposal in which a Director or the legal person he or she represents is an interested party and when his/her interest is likely to compromise the interest of the Company, the Director shall explain the important aspects of his/her interest at the Board meeting.

  • II. The Directors shall abstain himself or herself.

  • III. A resolution has been resolved by the Board of Directors.

When the matter is being discussed and resolved, all Directors present at the meeting shall still include Directors prohibited from exercising voting rights in the preceding paragraph.

  • Article 16: The resolutions of every Board Meeting shall be recorded in the minute book. The minute book shall accurately record the following items:

  • I. The term, place and time of the meeting.

  • II. Name of the Chairman.

  • III. The attendance of the Directors, including the names and numbers of those who are present, on leave, and absent.

  • IV. The names and titles of the other attendants.

  • V. The name of the recorder.

  • VI. Report items: The name, title, and important opinions of the directors, experts and other personnel.

  • VII. Discussion Items: The discussion items and the results of the proposal, the voting method and the result of each proposed resolution; the summary of opinion by the Directors, experts, and other personnel; the name of any Director that is an interested party as referred to in Paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, an explanation of the important aspects of the relationship of interest, the reasons why the Director was required or not required to enter recusal, and the status of their recusal; any dissenting opinion or abstention with a written statement; any written statement provided by the Independent Directors pursuant to Paragraph 2, Articles 7 of the Rules;

  • VIII. Extempore motion: the names of the persons proposing the extempore motion; the voting method and the result of each proposed resolution; the summary of opinion by the Directors, experts, and other personnel; the name of any Director that is an interested party as referred to in Paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, an explanation of the important aspects of the relationship of interest, the reasons why the Director was required or not required to enter recusal, and the status of their recusal; any dissenting opinion or abstention with a written statement; and

  • IX. Other matters that shall be recorded.

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Any of matters in relation to a resolution passed at a meeting of the Board of Directors shall be stated in the minute book and within two days of the meeting be published on an information reporting website designated by the competent authority:

The Board of Directors is a part of the minute book and shall be properly stored in the existence of the Company.

The minute book shall be signed or stamped by the Chairman and the reporter. The meeting minutes shall be distributed to each Director within 20 days after the meeting and shall be included in the Company's important archive for permanent and proper preservation during the existence of the Company. The production and distribution of the minute book as described in Paragraph 1 may be effected by electronic means.

  • Article 17: The Company shall audio or video record the full process of the Board of Directors' meetings, and shall preserve in electronic for at least 5 years.

If before the end of the preservation period referred to in the preceding paragraph any litigation arises in connection with a resolution of a Board of Directors' Meeting, the relevant audio or video recordings shall continue to be preserved until the litigation is concluded.

If a Board of Directors' Meeting is held via video conference, the audio and video recordings of the video and audio meetings shall be properly preserved during the existence of the Company as part of the meeting record.

  • Article 18: The formulation and amendments to these Rules shall be approved by the Board of Directors and reported to the Shareholders' Meeting. These Rules shall go into effect from Jan. 1, 2007.

The first amendment was made on Feb. 9, 2007.

The second amendment was made on Feb 22, 2008.

The third amendment was made on Feb 23, 2010.

The fourth amendment was made on Oct 29, 2012. The fifth amendment was made on Dec. 20, 2017

The sixth amendment was made on Feb. 26, 2019

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars)

ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents (Notes 3, 4 and 6)

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss - current (Notes 3, 4, 7 and 32)
Financial assets at amortized cost (Notes 3, 4, 9 and 34)
Notes receivable (Notes 3, 4, 5 and 11)
Trade receivables (Notes 3, 4, 5 and 11)
Trade receivables from related parties (Notes 3, 4, 5 and 33)
Other receivables (Notes 3, 4 and 11)
Current tax assets (Note 4)
Inventories (Notes 4 and 12)
Prepayments (Note 18)
Other financial assets - current (Notes 3, 4, 15 and 34)
Other current assets

Total current assets

NON-CURRENT ASSETS
Financial assets measured at cost - non-current (Notes 3, 4 and 10)
Property, plant and equipment (Notes 4, 5, 16, 33 and 35)
Intangible assets (Notes 4 and 17)
Deferred tax assets (Notes 4 and 27)
Long-term prepayments for lease (Note 18)
Other non-current assets (Note 19)

Total non-current assets

TOTAL

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

CURRENT LIABILITIES
Short-term borrowings (Note 20)

Financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss - current (Notes 3, 4, 7 and 32)
Contract liabilities - current (Notes 3 and 25)
Notes payable
Trade payables
Other payables (Notes 21 and 30)
Current tax liabilities (Note 4)
Provisions - current (Notes 3, 4 and 22)
Other current liabilities (Notes 3 and 21)

Total current liabilities

NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES
Deferred tax liabilities (Notes 4 and 27)
Net defined benefit liabilities - non-current (Notes 4 and 23)
Guarantee deposits (Note 21)

Total non-current liabilities

Total liabilities

EQUITY ATTRIBUTABLE TO OWNERS OF THE COMPANY
Share capital (Note 24)

Capital surplus (Notes 24 and 29)

Retained earnings (Note 24)
Legal reserve
Special reserve
Unappropriated earnings

Total retained earnings

Other equity (Note 24)

Total equity attributable to owners of the Company
NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS

Total equity

TOTAL
2018
Amount
%
$ 27,150,561 38
28,068
-
7,000
-
330,750
-
14,974,957 21
31
-
430,457
-
-
-
6,907,917 10
1,979,700
3
-
-

24,941

-


51,834,382
72

-
-
16,414,443 23
43,441
-
2,283,150
3
296,755
1

648,334

1


19,686,123
28

$ 71,520,505
100

$ 16,997,441 24
42,128
-
687,874
1
-
-
6,013,266
8
10,462,557 15
1,422,847
2
523,680
1

613,904

1


36,763,697
52

2,202,439
3
100,304
-

25,419

-


2,328,162

3


39,091,859
55


5,256,059

7


333,778

-

4,618,248
7
1,703,150
2

22,701,647
32


29,023,045
41


(2,191,778)
(3)

32,421,104 45

7,542

-


32,428,646
45

$ 71,520,505
100
2017


































































Amount
%
$ 29,753,243 42

66,880
-

-
-

241,411
-

14,210,825 20

2,012
-

457,566
1

136,382
-

5,346,205
8

1,942,625
3

7,000
-

15,843

-

52,179,992
74

122,016
-

14,774,414 21

25,453
-

1,841,818
3

292,559
1

957,759

1

18,014,019
26
$ 70,194,011
100
$ 18,748,935 27

8,822
-

-
-

26
-

5,923,401
8

10,621,482 15

485,929
1

466,959
-

1,182,254

2

37,437,808
53

1,922,141
3

101,073
-

27,626

-

2,050,840

3

39,488,648
56

5,256,059

8

333,778

-

4,181,680
6

1,531,129
2

21,098,452
30

26,811,261
38

(1,703,150)
(2)

30,697,948 44

7,415

-

30,705,363
44
$ 70,194,011
100

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Except Earnings Per Share)

OPERATING REVENUE (Notes 4, 25 and 33)

OPERATING COSTS (Notes 12 and 26)

GROSS PROFIT

OPERATING EXPENSES (Notes 11, 26 and 33)
Selling and marketing expenses
General and administrative expenses
Research and development expenses
Expected credit loss

Total operating expenses

OTHER OPERATING INCOME AND EXPENSES
(Notes 13 and 26)

PROFIT FROM OPERATIONS

NON-OPERATING INCOME AND EXPENSES
Other income (Notes 4 and 26)
Other gains and losses (Notes 10 and 26)
Finance costs (Notes 4 and 26)

Total non-operating income and expenses

PROFIT BEFORE INCOME TAX FROM
CONTINUING OPERATIONS
INCOME TAX EXPENSE (Notes 4 and 27)

NET PROFIT FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS
2018
Amount
%
$ 52,105,683 100

42,341,188
81


9,764,495
19

2,030,538
4
2,115,316
4
183,004
-

13,752

-


4,342,610

8


-

-


5,421,885
11

957,901
2
477,298
1

(331,811)
(1)


1,103,388

2

6,525,273 13

(1,586,748)
(3)


4,938,525
10
2017


























Amount
%
$ 45,818,601 100

37,463,660
82

8,354,941
18

1,705,625
4

1,748,625
4

169,424
-

-

-

3,623,674

8

66,616

-

4,797,883
10

658,381
1

306,702
1

(220,218)

-

744,865

2

5,542,748 12

(1,177,149)
(3)

4,365,599

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(Continued)

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Except Earnings Per Share)

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS)
Items that will not be reclassified subsequently to
profit or loss:
Remeasurement of defined benefit plans (Notes 4
and 23)

Unrealized loss on investments in equity
instruments at fair value through other
comprehensive income (Notes 4 and 24)
Income tax relating to items that will not be
reclassified subsequently to profit or loss
(Notes 4 and 27)


Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit
or loss:
Exchange differences on translating the financial
statements of foreign operations (Notes 4
and 24)
Income tax relating to items that may be
reclassified subsequently to profit or loss
(Notes 4 and 27)


Other comprehensive loss for the year, net of
income tax

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE
YEAR

NET PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO:
Owners of the Company

Non-controlling interests


TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
ATTRIBUTABLE TO:
Owners of the Company

Non-controlling interests


EARNINGS PER SHARE (Note 28)

From continuing operations

Basic

Diluted
2018
Amount
%
$ 837
-
(124,846)
-

27,772

-


(96,237)

-

(505,279) (1)

142,902

-


(362,377)
(1)


(458,614)
(1)

$ 4,479,911

9

$ 4,938,398 10

127

-

$ 4,938,525
10

$ 4,479,784
9

127

-

$ 4,479,911

9




$9.40


$9.25
2017


































Amount
%
$ (12,895)
-

-
-

2,192

-

(10,703)

-

(1,201,246) (3)

204,212

1

(997,034)
(2)

(1,007,737)
(2)
$ 3,357,862

7
$ 4,365,681
9

(82)

-
$ 4,365,599

9
$ 3,357,944
7

(82)

-
$ 3,357,862

7

$8.31

$8.21



The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

(Concluded)

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars)

BALANCE AT JANUARY 1, 2017
Appropriation of 2016 earnings (Note 24)
Legal reserve
Cash dividends
Actual partial disposal of the interests in subsidiaries (Note 29)
Net profit for the year ended December 31, 2017
Other comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2017
(Note 24)
Total comprehensive income/(loss) for the year ended
December 31, 2017
BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2017
Effect of retrospective application and retrospective restatement
(Note 3)
BALANCE AT JANUARY 1, 2018 AS RESTATED
Appropriation of 2017 earnings (Note 24)
Legal reserve
Special reserve
Cash dividends
Net profit for the year ended December 31, 2018
Other comprehensive income/(loss) for the year ended
December 31, 2018 (Note 24)
Total comprehensive income/(loss) for the year ended
December 31, 2018
BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2018
Equity Attributable to Shareholders of the Parent Equity Attributable to Shareholders of the Parent Non-controlling
Total
Interests
$ 29,565,702
$ -

-
-
(2,233,825)
-

8,127
7,497
4,365,681
(82)
(1,007,737)

-


3,357,944

(82)

30,697,948
7,415


2,803

-

30,700,751
7,415

-
-
-
-
(2,759,431)
-

4,938,398
127

(458,614)

-


4,479,784

127

$ 32,421,104
$ 7,542
Total Equity
$ 29,565,702
-
(2,233,825)
15,624
4,365,599
(1,007,737)

3,357,862
30,705,363

2,803
30,708,166
-
-
(2,759,431)
4,938,525

(458,614)

4,479,911
$ 32,428,646
Share Capital
Capital Surplus
$ 5,256,059
$ 325,651
-
-
-
-
-
8,127
-
-

-

-

-

-
5,256,059
333,778

-

-
5,256,059
333,778
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

-

-

-

-
$ 5,256,059
$ 333,778
Retained Earnings
Unappropriated
Legal Reserve
Special Reserve
Earnings

$ 3,824,376
$ 1,531,129
$ 19,334,603
357,304
-
(357,304)
-
-
(2,233,825)
-
-
-
-
-
4,365,681

-

-

(10,703)

-

-

4,354,978
4,181,680
1,531,129
21,098,452

-

-

30,166
4,181,680
1,531,129
21,128,618
436,568
-
(436,568)
-
172,021
(172,021)
-
-
(2,759,431)
-
-
4,938,398

-

-

2,651

-

-

4,941,049
$ 4,618,248
$ 1,703,150
$ 22,701,647
Others
Unrealized
Exchange
Loss on
Differences on
Financial Assets at
Translation of
Fair Value
Financial
Through Other

Statements of
Comprehensive
Foreign Operations
Income
$ (706,116)
$ -

-
-
-
-

-
-
-
-

(997,034)

-


(997,034)

-

(1,703,150)
-


-

(27,363)

(1,703,150)
(27,363)

-
-
-
-
-
-

-
-

(362,377)

(98,888)


(362,377)

(98,888)

$ (2,065,527)
$ (126,251)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars)

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Profit before income tax

Adjustments for:
Depreciation expenses
Amortization expenses
Amortization of prepayments for lease
Expected credit loss recognized on trade receivables
Gain on reversal of impairment loss recognized on trade receivables
Net gain on fair value change of financial assets at fair value through
profit and loss
Finance costs
Interest income
Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment
Gain on disposal of non-current assets held for sale
Impairment loss on financial assets
Impairment loss on non-financial assets
Gain on reversal of non-financial assets at fair value
Loss due to fire
Net (gain)/loss on foreign currency exchange
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Financial assets held for trading
Financial assets mandatorily measured at fair value through profit or
loss
Notes receivable
Trade receivables
Trade receivables from related parties
Other receivables
Inventories
Prepayments
Other current assets
Financial liabilities held for trading
Contract liabilities
Notes payable
Trade payables
Other payables
Provisions-current
Other current liabilities
Net defined benefit liabilities

Cash generated from operations
Interest received
Interest paid
Income tax paid

Net cash generated from operating activities
2018
$ 6,525,273
2,949,572
19,414
6,733
13,752

-
(281,863)
331,811
(494,661)
(5,222)
-
-
516,757
-
-
(266,792)
-
736,416
(96,941)
(477,266)
1,981
34,814
(2,136,429)
(79,823)
(8,866)
(330,161)
31,528
(26)
162,549
741,108
68,619
42,221

68

8,004,566
477,120
(310,950)

(525,532)


7,645,204
2017
$ 5,542,748

2,109,976

11,121

7,201

-

(32,057)

(711,780)

220,218

(467,503)

(8,694)

(65,665)

32,968

307,013

(66,616)

113,227

468,822

348,265

-

(66,982)

(2,665,323)

(2,012)

(101,569)

(1,415,403)

(1,064,283)

(6,628)

(136,341)

-

1

888,459

1,547,142

25,999

174,568

2,156

4,989,028

450,627

(216,061)

(590,375)

4,633,219

(Continued)

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars)

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from sale of financial assets designated as at fair value
through profit or loss

Purchase of financial assets measured at cost
Proceeds from disposal of non-current assets held for sale
Payments for property, plant and equipment
Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment
Increase in refundable deposits
Decrease in refundable deposits
Payments for intangible assets
Increase in other non-current assets
Increase in other prepayments
Increase in prepayments for other equipment

Net cash used in investing activities

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from short-term borrowings
Repayments of short-term borrowings
Proceeds from guarantee deposits received
Distributed cash dividends
Partial disposal of interests in subsidiaries without a loss of control

Net cash (used in)/generated from financing activities

EFFECTS OF EXCHANGE RATE CHANGES ON THE BALANCE
OF CASH HELD IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES

NET DECREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
YEAR

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE END OF THE YEAR
2018
$ -
-
-
(5,246,165)
185,773
(6,840)
-
(35,862)
-
(18,012)

(362,661)


(5,483,767)

-
(2,023,122)
41,342
(2,759,431)

-


(4,741,211)


(22,908)

(2,602,682)

29,753,243

$ 27,150,561
2017
$ 952,232

(31,087)

298,467

(4,286,592)

59,363

-

6,525

(14,619)

(29,944)

-

(712,940)

(3,758,595)

2,631,549

-

47,660

(2,233,825)

15,624

461,008

(1,829,745)

(494,113)

30,247,356
$ 29,753,243

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

(Concluded)

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

BALANCE SHEETS DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars)

ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents (Notes 3, 4 and 6)

Financial assets at amortized cost (Notes 3, 4, 8 and 30)
Notes receivable (Notes 3, 4, 5 and 9)
Trade receivables (Notes 3, 4, 5 and 9)
Trade receivables from related parties (Notes 3, 4, 5 and 29)
Other receivables (Notes 3, 4 and 9)
Other receivables from related parties (Notes 3, 4 and 29)
Inventories (Notes 4 and 10)
Prepayments
Other financial assets - current (Notes 3, 4, 11 and 30)
Other current assets

Total current assets

NON-CURRENT ASSETS
Investments accounted for using the equity method (Notes 4, 12, 26 and 29)
Property, plant and equipment (Notes 4, 5, 13, 29 and 31)
Intangible assets (Notes 4 and 14)
Deferred tax assets (Notes 4 and 23)
Other non-current assets (Note 15)

Total non-current assets

TOTAL

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

CURRENT LIABILITIES
Short-term borrowings (Note 16)

Financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss - current (Notes 4, 7 and 28)
Contract liabilities - current (Notes 3 and 21)
Trade payables
Trade payables to related parties (Note 29)
Other payables (Notes 17 and 25)
Other payables to related parties (Note 29)
Current tax liabilities (Note 4)
Provisions - current (Notes 4 and 18)
Other current liabilities (Note 17)

Total current liabilities

NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES
Deferred tax liabilities (Notes 4 and 23)
Net defined benefit liabilities - non-current (Notes 4 and 19)
Guarantee deposits (Note 17)

Total non-current liabilities

Total liabilities

EQUITY ATTRIBUTABLE TO OWNERS OF THE COMPANY
Share capital (Note 20)

Capital surplus (Note 20)

Retained earnings (Note 20)
Legal reserve
Special reserve
Unappropriated earnings

Total retained earnings

Other equity (Note 20)

Total equity

TOTAL
2018
Amount
%
$ 234,159
1
7,000
-
896
-
674,636
1
949,572
2
19,648
-
2,979,619
6
276,308
1
45,735
-
-
-

20,881

-


5,208,454
11

40,710,945 86
1,094,102
2
12,647
-
566,438
1

44,165

-


42,428,297
89

$ 47,636,751
100

$ 5,538,218 12
141
-
9,216
-
397,904
1
226,627
-
1,859,909
4
4,006,356
8
883,332
2
11,351
-

22,983

-


12,956,037
27

2,159,156
5
100,304
-

150

-


2,259,610

5


15,215,647
32


5,256,059
11


333,778

1

4,618,248 10
1,703,150
3

22,701,647
48


29,023,045
61


(2,191,778)
(5)


32,421,104
68

$ 47,636,751
100
2017






























































Amount
%
$ 306,078
1

-
-

3,262
-

405,489
1

1,007,577
2

32,171
-

5,499,876 11

332,159
1

72,110
-

7,000
-

7,932

-

7,673,654
16

38,703,878 81

764,641
2

19,190
-

346,859
1

172,538

-

40,007,106
84
$ 47,680,760
100
$ 6,166,800 13

945
-

-
-

394,057
1

365,510
1

1,715,574
4

6,066,435 13

231,201
-

18,812
-

32,062

-

14,991,396
32

1,890,193
4

101,073
-

150

-

1,991,416

4

16,982,812
36

5,256,059
11

333,778

1

4,181,680
9

1,531,129
3

21,098,452
44

26,811,261
56

(1,703,150)
(4)

30,697,948
64
$ 47,680,760
100

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Except Earnings Per Share)

OPERATING REVENUE (Notes 4, 21 and 29)

OPERATING COSTS (Notes 10, 22 and 29)

GROSS PROFIT

UNREALIZED GAIN ON TRANSACTIONS WITH
SUBSIDIARIES, ASSOCIATES AND JOINT
VENTURES (Note 4)
REALIZED GAIN/(LOSS) ON TRANSACTIONS
WITH SUBSIDIARIES, ASSOCIATES AND
JOINT VENTURES (Note 4)

REALIZED GROSS PROFIT

OPERATING EXPENSES (Notes 22 and 29)
Selling and marketing expenses
General and administrative expenses
Research and development expenses
Expected credit loss

Total operating expenses

PROFIT/(LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS

NON-OPERATING INCOME AND EXPENSES
Other income (Notes 4, 22 and 29)
Other gains and losses (Notes 4, 22 and 29)
Finance costs (Notes 4 and 22)
Share of profit or loss of subsidiaries, associates and
joint ventures (Note 4)

Total non-operating income and expenses

PROFIT BEFORE INCOME TAX FROM
CONTINUING OPERATIONS
INCOME TAX EXPENSE (Notes 4 and 23)

NET PROFIT FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS
2018
Amount
%
$ 9,098,357
100
4,855,451
54

4,242,906
46

(210,875) (2)
82,899

1

4,114,930
45

214,806
2
622,455
7
122,859
1
4,182

-

964,302
10

3,150,628
35

194,665
2
12,461
-
(47,325) (1)
2,715,168
30

2,874,969
31

6,025,597
66
(1,087,199)
(12)

4,938,398
54
2017






























Amount
%
$ 4,729,172
100

4,043,770
85

685,402
15

(82,899) (2)

(9,798)

-

592,705
13

199,635
4

567,101
12

125,840
3

-

-

892,576
19

(299,871)
(6)

220,061
5

(9,382)
-

(68,950) (2)

5,316,366
112

5,458,095
115

5,158,224
109

(792,543)
(17)

4,365,681
92

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Except Earnings Per Share)

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
Items that will not be reclassified subsequently to
profit or loss:
Remeasurement of defined benefit plans (Notes 4
and 19)

Share of other comprehensive loss of subsidiaries,
associates and joint ventures accounted for
using the equity method (Notes 4 and 20)
Income tax relating to items that will not be
reclassified subsequently to profit or loss
(Notes 4 and 23)


Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit
or loss:
Exchange differences on translating the financial
statements of foreign operations (Notes 4
and 20)
Income tax relating to items that may be
reclassified subsequently to profit or loss
(Notes 4 and 23)


Other comprehensive loss for the year, net of
income tax

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE
YEAR

EARNINGS PER SHARE (Note 24)
From continuing operations
Basic
Diluted
2018
Amount
%
$ 837
-
(124,846) (1)
27,772

-

(96,237)
(1)

(505,279) (6)
142,902

2

(362,377)
(4)

(458,614)
(5)

$ 4,479,784
49

$ 9.40
$ 9.25
2017














Amount
%
$ (12,895)
-

-
-

2,192

-

(10,703)

-
(1,201,246) (25)

204,212

4

(997,034)
(21)
(1,007,737)
(21)
$ 3,357,944
71
$ 8.31
$ 8.21




The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

(Concluded)

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars)


BALANCE AT JANUARY 1, 2017

Appropriation of 2016 earnings (Note 20)
Legal reserve
Cash dividends
Other changes in capital surplus
Actual partial disposal of the interests in subsidiaries
Net profit for the year ended December 31, 2017
Other comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2017

Total comprehensive income/(loss) for the year ended December 31, 2017

BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2017
Effect of retrospective application and retrospective restatement (Note 3)

BALANCE AT JANUARY 1,2018 AS RESTATED
Appropriation of 2017 earnings (Note 20)
Legal reserve
Special reserve
Cash dividends
Net profit for the year ended December 31, 2018
Other comprehensive income/(loss) for the year ended December 31, 2018

Total comprehensive income/(loss) for the year ended December 31, 2018

BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2018
Share Capital Capital Surplus
$ 5,256,059 $ 325,651
-
-
-
-
-
8,127
-
-

-

-


-

-

5,256,059
333,778

-

-

5,256,059
333,778
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

-

-


-

-

$ 5,256,059
$ 333,778
Retained Earnings

Legal Reserve Special Reserve
Unappropriated
Earnings
$ 3,824,376 $ 1,531,129 $ 19,334,603

357,304
-
(357,304)

-
-
(2,233,825)

-
-
-

-
-
4,365,681

-

-

(10,703)


-

-

4,354,978


4,181,680
1,531,129
21,098,452

-

-

30,166


4,181,680
1,531,129
21,128,618

436,568
-
(436,568)

-
172,021
(172,021)

-
-
(2,759,431)

-
-
4,938,398

-

-

2,651


-

-

4,941,049

$ 4,618,248
$ 1,703,150
$ 22,701,647

Others
Exchange
Differences on
Translating the
Financial
Unrealized Loss
on Financial
Assets at Fair
Value
Statements of Through Other
Foreign
Operations
Comprehensive
Income
$ (706,116) $ -

-
-

-
-

-
-

-
-

(997,034)

-


(997,034)

-


(1,703,150)
-

-

(27,363)


(1,703,150)
(27,363)

-
-

-
-

-
-

-
-

(362,377)

(98,888)


(362,377)

(98,888)

$ (2,065,527)
$ (126,251)
Total Equity
$ 29,565,702

-

(2,233,825)

8,127

4,365,681

(1,007,737)

3,357,944

30,697,948

2,803

30,700,751

-

-

(2,759,431)

4,938,398

(458,614)

4,479,784
$ 32,421,104

















The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars)

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Profit before income tax

Adjustments for:
Depreciation expenses
Amortization expenses
Expected credit loss recognized on trade receivables
Gain on reversal of impairment loss recognized on trade receivables
Net (gain)/loss on fair value changes of financial assets at fair value
through profit or loss
Finance costs
Interest income
Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment
Share of profit of subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures

Impairment loss on non-financial assets
Unrealized gain on sales with subsidiaries and associates and joint
ventures
Realized (gain)/loss on sales with subsidiaries and associates and
joint ventures
Net loss on foreign currency exchange
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Financial assets held for trading
Financial assets mandatorily measured at fair value through profit or
loss
Notes receivable
Trade receivables
Trade receivables from related parties
Other receivables
Other receivables from related parties
Inventories
Prepayments
Other current assets
Financial liabilities held for trading
Contract liabilities
Trade payables
Trade payables to related parties
Other payables
Other payables to related parties

Provisions - current
Other current liabilities
Net defined benefit liabilities

Cash generated from operations
Interest received
Interest paid
Income tax paid

Net cash generated from operating activities
2018
$ 6,025,597

94,221
9,519
4,182

-
(2,354)
47,325
(3,067)
(3,639)
(2,715,168)
139,034
210,875
(82,899)
239
-
4,350
2,366
(270,728)
59,083
12,742
2,562,441

(83,183)
26,375
(12,881)
(2,800)
(3,001)
448
(141,856)
285,952
(2,100,708)
3,234
(8,313)
68

4,057,454
2,877
(43,204)
(212,207)

3,804,920
2017
$ 5,158,224
34,201
9,129
-
(70)

18,715
68,950

(4,512)

(2,211)
(5,316,366)
2,135
82,899

9,798
1,106
270
-
(2,337)

(18,133)
(723,103)
(15,094)
(5,489,428)

(40,967)
(13,984)

(3,853)

(18,040)

-
82,945

204,951
249,419

6,066,435
11,879

(3,826)

2,156
351,288
4,411

(69,956)

(76,856)

208,887
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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017 (In Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars)

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Payments for property, plant and equipment

Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment
Decrease in refundable deposits
Payments for intangible assets
Acquisition of investments accounted for using the equity method
Decrease in other receivables from related parties
Dividends received from subsidiaries
Increase in prepayments for other equipment

Net cash (used in)/generated from investing activities

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Repayments of short-term borrowings
Proceeds from guarantee deposits received
Refunds of guarantee deposits received
Partial disposal of interests in subsidiaries without a loss of control
Dividends paid

Net cash used in financing activities

EFFECTS OF EXCHANGE RATE CHANGES ON THE BALANCE
OF CASH HELD IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES

NET (DECREASE)/INCREASE IN CASH AND CASH
EQUIVALENTS
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
YEAR

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT THE END OF THE YEAR
2018
$ (409,979)
12,017
-
(876)
(50,000)
501
-
(44,254)

(492,591)

(629,457)
1,000
-
-
(2,759,431)

(3,387,888)

3,640

(71,919)
306,078

$ 234,159
2017
$ (21,183)
10,536
64

(9,140)

-
408
3,597,840

(122,764)

3,455,761
(1,244,678)
-
(3,475)
15,624
(2,233,825)
(3,466,354)

(3,202)

195,092

110,986
$ 306,078

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

(Concluded)

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Attachment 5

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Earning Distribution Proposal for 2018

Earning Distribution Proposal for 2018 Earning Distribution Proposal for 2018
Units: NT$
Item Amount Note
Unappropriated retained earnings at the beginning of
the period
17,730,432,193
Effect of retrospective application and retrospective
restatement

30,166,003
Remeasurement of defined benefit plans recognized
in retained earnings
2,651,321
Adjusted retained earnings 17,763,249,517
Profit after tax for the year 4,938,397,367
Less: Appropriated as legal reserve for the year 493,839,737
Appropriated as special reserve 488,628,685
Earnings in 2018 available for distribution by
shareholders
21,719,178,462
Total shareholder distributable earnings 21,719,178,462
Distribution items:
Shareholders' cash dividends 3,101,074,798
Unappropriated retained earnings at the end of the
period
18,618,103,664

Note: In line with the Income Tax Act, the Company will distribute earnings in 2018 on a priority basis.

Chairman: Wang, Chiang-Chuang Manager: Wang, Chiang-Chuang Accounting Manager: Li, Cheng-I

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Attachment 6

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Comparison Table for the Amendment to the Operating Procedures for

Acquisition and Disposal of Assets

Articles before amendment Articles after amendment Revision
reason
Atrticle 1. Formulation Basis
In accordance with the provisions of
Article 36-1 of the Securities and
Exchange Act (hereinafter, the "Act") and
Regulations Governing the Acquisition
and Disposal of Assets by Public
Companies (hereinafter, the
"Regulations"), the Company hereby
formulates these Procedures with a view to
safeguarding the interests of the Company
and all shareholders and meeting the
requirements of information disclosure.

Atrticle 1. Formulation Basis
In accordance with the provisions of
Article 36-1 of the Securities and
Exchange Act (hereinafter, the "Act") and
Regulations Governing the Acquisition and
Disposal of Assets by Public Companies
(hereinafter, the "Regulations"), these
Procedures are hereby formulated with a
view to safeguarding the interests of the
Company and all shareholders and meeting
the requirements of information disclosure.


The
appropriate
provisions are
amended in
writing.
Atrticle 2. Scope of Assets
I.
The scope of "assets" as used in the
Procedures is described below:
(I)
Investments in stocks, government
bonds, corporate bonds, financial
bonds, marketable securities
representing interest in a fund,
depositary receipts, call (put)
warrants, beneficial interest
securities, and asset-backed
securities.
(II)
Real property (including land,
houses and buildings, investment
property, rights to use land, and
construction enterprise inventory)
and equipment.
(III)
Memberships.
(IV)
Patents, copyrights, trademarks,
franchise rights, and other
intangible assets.
(V)
Claims of financial institutions
(including accounts receivable, bills
purchased and discounted and
loans, and receivables).
(VI)
Derivative products.
(VII) Assets acquired or disposed of in
connection with mergers,
demergers, acquisitions, or transfer
of shares in accordance with law.
(VIII) Other important assets.
II.
"Derivatives" used herein refers to forward
contracts, options contracts, futures
contracts, leverage contracts, and swap
contracts, and compound contracts
combining the above products, whose
value is derived from assets, interest rates,
foreign exchange rates, indexes or other
interests. The term "forward contracts"
used herein does not include insurance
contracts, performance contracts, after-
sales service contracts, long-term leasing
contracts, or long-term purchase (sales)
agreements.
III. "Assets acquired ordisposed through


Atrticle 2. Scope and Definition of Assets
I.
The scope of "assets" as used in the
Procedures is described below:
(I)
Investments in stocks, government
bonds, corporate bonds, financial
bonds, marketable securities
representing interest in a fund,
depositary receipts, call (put)
warrants, beneficial interest
securities, and asset-backed
securities.
(II)
Real property (including land,
houses and buildings, investment
property, and construction
enterprise inventory) and
equipment.
(III)
Memberships.
(IV)
Patents, copyrights, trademarks,
franchise rights, and other
intangible assets.
(V)
Use of right-of-use asset
(VI)
Claims of Financial Institution
(including receivables, bills
purchased, discounted loans and
overdue receivables.)
(VII) Derivative products
(VIII) Assets acquired or disposed of in
connection with mergers, spin-off,
acquisitions or transfer of shares in
accordance with the laws.
(IX)
Other important assets.
II.
Derivatives used herein refer to forward
contracts, options contracts, futures
contracts, leverage margin contracts, or
swap contracts, whose value is derived
from a specified interest rate, financial
instrument price, commodity price, foreign
exchange rate, index of prices or rates,
credit rating or credit index, or other
variable; or hybrid contracts combining the
above contracts; or hybrid contracts or
structured products containing embedded
derivatives. The term "forward contracts"
used herein does not include insurance
contracts, performance contracts, after-
sales service contracts,long-term leasing


The content
of the
amendment
to the
provisions
and the
amended text
in
accordance
with the
provisions of
the
Amendment
Letter
1070341072
Letter dated
November
26, 2018.

40

Articles before amendment Articles after amendment Revision
reason
mergers, demergers, acquisitions, or
transfer of shares in accordance with law"
used herein refers to assets acquired or
disposed through mergers, demergers, or
acquisitions conducted under the Business
Mergers and Acquisitions Act, Financial
Holding Company Act, Financial
Institution Merger Act and other acts, or to
transfer of shares from another company
through issuance of new shares of its own
as the consideration therefor ("transfer of
shares") under Article 156, paragraph 8 of
the Company Act.
IV. "Subsidiaries" and "Related Party" used
herein should mean the subsidiaries and
related party as defined in the Regulations
Governing the Preparation of Financial
Reports by Securities Issuers.
V.
"Professional Appraiser" used herein
should mean any appraisers/appraisal
institutions specialized in real estate or
other lawful appraisers/appraisal
institutions of real estate or equipment.
VI. "Date of occurrence" used herein should
mean, in principle, the contracting day, the
payment day, the transaction day, the title
transferring day, the day of a board
resolution or other date when the
transaction party and the transaction
amount can be ascertained (whichever is
earlier). However, for investments required
to be approved by the competent authority,
the Date of the Occurrence will be any of
the above-mentioned dates or the date on
which the approval letter of the competent
authority is received, whichever is earlier.
VII. Mainland China area investment: Refers to
investments in the mainland China area
approved by Taiwan’s Ministry of
Economic Affairs Investment Commission
or conducted in accordance with the
provisions of the Regulations Governing
Permission for Investment or Technical
Cooperation in the Mainland Area.


III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
contracts, or long-term purchase (sales)
agreements.
Assets acquired or disposed through
mergers, demergers, acquisitions, or
transfer of shares in accordance with law"
used herein: refer to assets acquired or
disposed through mergers, demergers, or
acquisitions conducted under the Business
Mergers and Acquisitions Act, Financial
Holding Company Act, Financial
Institution Merger Act and other acts, or to
transfer of shares from another company
through issuance of new shares of its own
as the consideration therefor (hereinafter
"transfer of shares") under Article 156-3 of
the Company Act.
Related party or subsidiary: As defined in
the Regulations Governing the Preparation
of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers.
"Professional Appraiser" used herein
should mean any appraisers/appraisal
institutions specialized in real estate or
other lawful appraisers/appraisal
institutions of real estate and equipment.
"Date of occurrence": Refers to the date of
contract signing, date of payment, date of
consignment trade, date of transfer, dates
of boards of directors resolutions, or other
date that can confirm the counterpart and
monetary amount of the transaction,
whichever date is earlier; However, for
investments required to be approved by the
competent authority, the Date of the
Occurrence will be any of the above-
mentioned dates or the date on which the
approval letter of the competent authority
is received, whichever is earlier.
"Mainland China area investment" used
herein: Refers to investments in the
mainland China area approved by the
Ministry of Economic Affairs Investment
Commission or conducted in accordance
with the provisions of the Regulations
Governing Permission for Investment or
Technical Cooperation in the Mainland
Area.
Securities exchange used herein:
"Domestic securities exchange"refers to
the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation;
"foreign securities exchange"refers to any
organized securities exchange market that
is regulated by the competent securities
authorities of the jurisdiction where it is
located.
Over-the-counter venue ("OTC venue",
"OTC"):"Domestic OTC venue"refers to
a venue for OTC trading provided by a
securities firm in accordance with the
Regulations Governing Securities Trading
on the Taipei Exchange;"foreign OTC
venue"refers to a venue at a financial
institution that is regulated by the foreign
competent authority and that is permitted
to conduct securities business.

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Atrticle 3. Exclusion of related parties
Any Professional Appraiser and its
appraisal personnel, certified public
accountants, lawyers, or securities
underwriters whom the Company has
acquired appraisal reports and opinions
from, shall not be a Related Party of the
Company .
Atrticle 3.
I.
II.
III.
External Experts
Any Professional Appraiser and its
appraisal personnel, certified public
accountants, lawyers, or securities
underwriters whom the Company has
acquired appraisal reports and opinions
from, shall meet the following
requirements:
May not have previously received a final
and unappeasable sentence to
imprisonment for 1 year or longer for a
violation of the Act, the Company Act,
the Banking Act of The Republic of
China, the Insurance Act, the Financial
Holding Company Act, or the Business
Entity Accounting Act, or for fraud,
breach of trust, embezzlement, forgery of
documents, or occupational crime.
However, this provision does not apply if
3 years have already passed since
completion of service of the sentence,
since expiration of the period of a
suspended sentence, or since a pardon
was received.
May not be a related party or de facto
related party of any party to the
transaction.
If the company is required to obtain
appraisal reports from two or more
professional appraisers, the different
professional appraisers or appraisal
officers may not be related parties or de
facto related parties of each other.
The content
of the
amendment
to the
provisions
and the
amended text
in
accordance
with the
provisions of
the
Amendment
Letter
1070341072
Letter dated
November
26, 2018.
Atrticle 5. Assessment and Operating Procedure for
Acquiring or Disposing Assets
I.
Acquisition or disposal of marketable
securities
(I)
Where the marketable securities
acquired or disposed at the
centralized market or the over-the-
counter venue, the responsible unit
shall handle with matters such as the
acquisition or disposal of the reasons,
the subject matter and the basis of
reference for the acquisition and
disposal, subject to the approval of
the Company's internal control
system.
(II) For securities not acquired or
disposed of by the centralized trading
market or the over-the-counter venue,
the responsible unit shall draft the
reasons for acquisition or disposal,
the object of the subject, the
counterpart, the transfer price, the
payment terms, and the price
reference based on the approval of
the internal control system of the
Company.
II.
For acquiring or disposing other assets, the
responsible unit shall handle with the
matters such as reason, the object of the
subject, the counterpart, the transfer price,
the payment terms and the price reference,
subject to the approval of the Company's
internal control system.
III. The relevant operating procedures for




Atrticle 5.
I.
II.
III.

Assessment and Operating Procedure for
Acquiring or Disposing Assets
Acquisition or disposal of marketable
securities
(I)
Where the marketable securities
acquired or disposed at the
centralized market or the over-the-
counter venue, the responsible unit
shall handle with matters such as the
acquisition or disposal of the reasons,
the subject matter and the basis of
reference for the acquisition and
disposal, subject to the approval of
the Company's internal control
system.
(II) For securities not acquired or
disposed of by the centralized trading
market or the over-the-counter
venue, the responsible unit shall draft
the reasons for acquisition or
disposal, the object of the subject, the
counterpart, the transfer price, the
payment terms, and the price
reference based on the approval of
the internal control system of the
Company.
For acquiring or disposing other assets, the
responsible unit shall handle with the
matters such as reason, the object of the
subject, the counterpart, the transfer price,
the payment terms and the price reference,
subject to the approval of the Company's
internal control system.
The relevant operating procedures for





The
amendments
are subject to
the
Regulations
Governing
the
Acquisition
and Disposal
of Assets by
Public
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acquisition or disposal of assets shall be
conducted in accordance with the
provisions of the internal control system of
the Company.
IV. For acquisition or disposal of major assets,
it shall be approved by the Audit
Committee and submitted to the Board of
Directors for resolution.

acquisition or disposal of assets shall be
conducted according to the provisions of
the Company's internal control system.
IV. For acquisition or disposal of major assets
or derivative product transactions, it shall
be approved by the Audit Committee and
submitted to the Board of Directors for
resolution.
Atrticle 6. Decision-making procedures for the
transaction:
I.
The price determination method and
reference to the asset acquisition or
disposal:
(I)
Acquisition or disposal of marketable
securities
1. The price of securities traded on
the centralized market or the over-
the-counter venue shall be
determined based on the market
prices of the then marketable
securities at the time of the
transaction.
2. For securities acquired or
disposed at the centralized trading
market or over the counter venue,
the price should be determined by
considering its net value per
share, profitability, the future
development potential and the
price agreed with reference to the
current transaction price.
(II) Acquisition or disposal of other assets
shall be conducted in a price
comparison, price negotiation, tender
or other methods.
II.
The units shall be authorized to make the
acquisition or disposal of assets within
the scope of authorization authorized by
the competent authority:
(I)
Acquisition or disposal of
marketable securities: Except for the
following circumstances, shall be
approved by the Audit Committee
and the Board of Directors.
1. The Audit Committee and the
Board of Directors shall
authorize the Chairman to decide
the acquisition or disposal of the
marketable securities for the
long-term investment purpose
within NT$300 million and then
submit to the Audit Committee
and Board of Directors for
retroactive recognition.
2. Chainman is authorized to
decide short-term marketable
securities invested by short-term
idle funds or the amount per
transaction or daily amount less
than NT$300 million. In case the
amount exceeding NT$300
million, it shall be submitted to
the Audit Committee and the
Board of Directors for approval.
(II) Acquisition or disposal of other
assets:
1. If the Company acquires or



Atrticle 6. Decision-making procedures for the
transaction:
I.
The price determination method and
reference to the asset acquisition or
disposal:
(I) Acquisition or disposal of marketable
securities
1. The price of securities traded on
the centralized market or the over-
the-counter venue shall be
determined based on the market
prices of the then marketable
securities at the time of the
transaction.
2. For securities acquired or disposed
at the centralized trading market
or over the counter venue, the
price should be determined by
considering its net value per share,
profitability, the future
development potential and the
price agreed with reference to the
current transaction price.
(II) Acquisition or disposal of other assets
shall be conducted in a price
comparison, price negotiation, tender
or other methods.
II.
The units shall be authorized to make the
acquisition or disposal of assets within
the scope of authorization authorized by
the competent authority:
(I) Acquisition or disposal of marketable
securities: Except for the following
circumstances, shall be approved by
the Audit Committee and the Board of
Directors.
1. The Audit Committee and the
Board of Directors shall authorize
the Chairman to decide the
acquisition or disposal of the
marketable securities for the
operating purpose within NT$300
million for long-term investment
purpose and then submit to the
Audit Committee and Board of
Directors for retroactive
recognition.
2. Chainman is authorized to decide
short-term marketable securities
invested by short-term idle funds
or the amount per transaction or
daily amount less than NT$300
million. In case the amount
exceeding NT$300 million, it
shall be submitted to the Audit
Committee and the Board of
Directors for approval.
(II) Acquisition or disposal of other
assets:




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appropriate
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disposes assets from its
subsidiaries for the operating
purpose, the Audit Committee
and Board of Directors shall
authorize the Chairman to decide
within 10% of the total assets
released in the latest financial
statements. If the transaction
count part is a related party and
the transaction amount above
NT$300 million, it shall be
subject to the consent of the
Audit Committee and Board of
Directors.
2. The Audit Committee and the
Board of Directors shall
authorize the Chairman to decide
the acquisition or disposal of
other assets for non-operating
use within NT$300 million and
then submit to the Audit
Committee and the Board of
Directors for retroactive
recognition, and subject to the
consent of the Audit Committee
and the Board of Directors.
III. If the transaction of acquisition or
disposal of assets is subject to the
approval of the Audit Committee and
Board of Directors as per the preceding
paragraph and an independent director
raises any objection or reservation to the
matter, it shall be recorded in the minute
bookoftheBoard of Directorsmeeting.
1. If the Company acquires or
disposes assets from its
subsidiaries for the operating
purpose, the Audit Committee and
Board of Directors shall authorize
the Chairman to decide within
10% of the total assets released in
the latest financial statements. If
the transaction count part is a
related party and the transaction
amount above NT$300 million, it
shall be subject to the consent of
the Audit Committee and Board of
Directors.
2. 2. For other assets acquired or
disposed of by non-operating use,
the Audit Committee and the
Board of Directors shall authorize
the Chairman to decide within
NT$300 million and then submit
to the Audit Committee and the
Board of Directors for retroactive
recognition, and subject to the
consent of the Audit Committee
and the Board of Directors.
III. When the transaction or disposal of
assets is subject to the acquisition or
disposal of assets by the preceding
paragraph, the independent directors
shall be recorded in the minute book of
the Board meeting if they are objected to
or qualified opinions.

Atrticle 7. Valuation reports on acquisition or disposal
of real estate or equipment
In acquiring or disposing of real property
or equipment where the transaction amount
reaches 20% of the Company's paid-in
capital or NT$300 million, the Company,
unless transacting with a government
agency, engaging others to build on its
own land, engaging others to build on
rented land, or acquiring or disposing of
business machinery and equipment, shall
obtain an appraisal report prior to the Date
of Occurrence from an expert appraiser
and shall further comply with the
following provisions:
I.
Where due to special circumstances it is
necessary to give a restrictive price or
specified price as a reference basis for the
transaction price, the transaction shall be
submitted for approval in advance by the
Board, and the same procedure shall be
followed for any future changes to the
terms and conditions of the transaction.
II.
If the transaction price is over NT$1
billion, the Company should retain more
than 2 professional appraisers to perform
the appraisal.
III. Where any one of the following
circumstances applies with respect to the
professional appraiser's appraisal results,
unless all the appraisal results for the
assets to be acquired are higher than the
transaction amount, or all the appraisal


Atrticle 7. Valuation report on acquisition or disposal
of property, equipment or its right-of-use
asset:
Except for transactions with government
institutions, contracting third parties to
construct on land owned or rented by the
Company, or acquisition of machinery and
equipment for operation purpose, for
acquisition or disposal of real estate or
other fixed assets by the Company and its
Subsidiaries whose amount reaches 20% of
the Company's paid-in capital or NT$300
million, an appraisal report issued by
Professional Appraiser shall be obtained in
advance and the following provisions
should be complied with:
I.
If for any special reason, restricted price,
specific price, or special price must be
used as a reference for the transaction
price, the transaction should be approved
by the Board of Directors in advance. The
above procedures should also be followed
in case the transaction terms are changed
subsequently.
II.
II. If the transaction price is over NT$1
billion, the Company should retain more
than 2 professional appraisers to perform
the appraisal.
III. Where any one of the following
circumstances applies with respect to the
professional appraiser's appraisal results,
unless all the appraisal results for the
assets to be acquired are higher than the
The content
of the
amendment
to the
provisions
and the
amended text
in accordance
with the
provisions of
the
Amendment
Letter
1070341072
Letter dated
November
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results for the assets to be disposed of are
lower than the transaction amount, a
certified public accountant shall be
engaged to perform the appraisal in
accordance with the provisions of
Statement of Auditing Standards No. 20
published by the ROC Accounting
Research and Development Foundation
("ARDF") and render a specific opinion
regarding the reason for the discrepancy
and the appropriateness of the transaction
price:
(I)
The discrepancy between the
appraisal results and the transaction
amount is 20% or more of the
transaction amount.
(II) The discrepancy between the
appraisal results of 2 or more
professional appraisers is 10% or
more of the transaction amount.
IV. No more than 3 months may elapse between
the date of the appraisal report issued by a
professional appraiser and the contract
execution date; provided, where the publicly
announced current value for the same period
is used and not more than 6 months have
elapsed, an opinion may still be issued by
the original professional appraiser.
transaction amount, or all the appraisal
results for the assets to be disposed of are
lower than the transaction amount, a
certified public accountant shall be
engaged to perform the appraisal in
accordance with the provisions of
Statement of Auditing Standards No. 20
published by the ROC Accounting
Research and Development Foundation
("ARDF") and render a specific opinion
regarding the reason for the discrepancy
and the appropriateness of the transaction
price:
(I) The discrepancy between the
appraisal results and the transaction
amount is 20% or more of the
transaction amount.
(II) The discrepancy between the
appraisal results of 2 or more
professional appraisers is 10% or
more of the transaction amount.
IV. The date of the contract with the contract
is not more than three months after the
date of the contract; however, if the
publicly announced current value of the
same period is applicable and the current
value of the same period has not elapsed,
the professional appraiser may issue an
opinion.
Atrticle 8. Related Party Transactions:
I.
In acquiring or disposing real property
from a related party, the Company shall
ensure that the necessary resolutions are
adopted, the reasonableness of the
transaction terms is appraised, and other
relevant matters are carried out in
compliance with the following, including
but without limitation, in case where the
transaction amount is 10% or more of the
aggregate assets of the Company, obtaining
a valuation report issued by a professional
valuation agency or a CPA opinion before
the date such transaction takes place
(provided that the calculation of the
transaction amount shall be subject to
Paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Procedure)
in addition to compliance with the
procedures set forth above. When judging
whether a trading counterparty is a related
party, in addition to legal formalities, the
de facto relationship shall also be
considered.
II.
Where the Company intends to acquire or
dispose of real property from a related
party, or to acquire or dispose any property
other than real property from a related
party and the transaction amount of which
is 20% or more of the paid-in capital of the
Company, or 10% or more of the aggregate
amount of assets of the Company, or
NT$300 million or more, except in trading
of government bonds or bonds under
repurchase and resale agreements, or
subscription or redemption of domestic
money market funds issued by securities
investment trust companies, the following
matters shall be submitted for approval





Atrticle 8. Related Party Transactions:
I.
Where the Company acquires or disposes
of assets with related parties, other
matters such as the relevant resolution
procedures and assessment of the
reasonableness of the transaction
conditions in accordance with Article 7
to Article 11, the transaction amount
shall also be obtained from a
professional appraiser or a CPA's opinion
in accordance with the provisions of the
preceding paragraph. The calculation of
transaction amounts shall be conducted
in accordance with Article 10-1. When
judging whether a trading counterparty is
a related party, in addition to legal
formalities, the de facto relationship
shall also be considered.
II.
II. Where the Company intends to
acquire or dispose real property from a
related party, or to acquire or dispose any
property other than real property from a
related party and the transaction amount
of which is 20% or more of the paid-in
capital of the Company, or 10% or more
of the aggregate amount of assets of the
Company, or NT$300million or more,
except in trading of government bonds or
bonds under repurchase and resale
agreements, or subscription or
redemption of domestic money market
funds, the following matters shall be
submitted for approval firstly by the
Audit Committee before resolution is
further approved by the Board before any
transaction agreement can be signed or
any payment can be made:
(I) The purpose, necessity and
1. The
content of the
amendment
to the
provisions
and the
amended text
in accordance
with the
provisions of
the
Amendment
Letter
1070341072
Letter dated
November
26, 2018.
2. Adjust the
supporting
conditions.
3. The
amendments
are subject to
the
Regulations
Governing
the
Acquisition
and Disposal
of Assets by
Public
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firstly by the Audit Committee before
resolution is further approved by the Board
before any transaction agreement can be
signed or any payment can be made:
(I)
The purpose, necessity and
anticipated benefits of acquisition or
disposal of assets.
(II) The reason for choosing the related
party as a trading counterparty.
(III) In respect of acquisition of real
property, information regarding
appraisal of the reasonableness of the
proposed transaction terms in
accordance with the Subparagraphs
3-4 of this Article.
(IV) The date and price of the related party
originally acquired the real property,
trading counterparty, and related
party relationships. The original
trading counterparty and that trading
counterparty's relationship to the
Company and the related party.
(V) Monthly cash flow forecasts for the
year commencing from the
anticipated month of signing of the
contract, and evaluation of the
necessity of the transaction and
reasonableness of the funds
utilization.
(VI) Appraisal report from professional
appraisers or CPA's opinion obtained
in accordance with regulations.
(VII) Restrictive conditions and other
important stipulations of the
transaction.
III. The calculation of transaction amounts in
the preceding paragraph shall be conducted
in accordance with Paragraph 2, Article 14,
and the term "within the preceding year"
shall be calculated as a basis of the date of
occurrence of the current transaction. The
same shall be submitted to the Audit
Committee for approval in accordance
with these Regulations and submitted to
the Board of Directors for approval. For
the acquisition or disposal of equipment
between the Company and its subsidiaries
for the operating purpose, the Audit
Committee and Board of Directors shall
authorize the Chairman to decide within an
amount stipulated in Article 6, then submit
the latest Audit Committee for approval
and Board of Directors for retroactive
recognition. When the transaction of
acquiring or disposing of assets is
submitted to the Audit Committee for
approval and Board of Directors for
deliberation in accordance with the
provisions of the preceding paragraph, the
Company shall take into full consideration
each independent director's opinions and
the independent director's opinions shall be
taken into consideration. If an independent
director objects to the Board of Directors
to an objection or retain an opinion, it shall
berecordedintheminute bookofthe







anticipated benefits of acquisition or
disposal of assets.
(II) The reason for choosing the related
party as a trading counterparty.
(III) The reasonableness of the
reasonableness of the reasonableness
of the preliminary transaction terms in
accordance with the provisions of
Paragraph 3 and 4, and the relevant
information from the related party.
(IV) The date and price of the related party
originally acquired the real property,
trading counterparty, and related party
relationships.
(V) Monthly cash flow forecasts for the
year commencing from the
anticipated month of signing of the
contract, and evaluation of the
necessity of the transaction and
reasonableness of the funds
utilization.
(VI) Appraisal report from professional
appraisers or CPA's opinion obtained
in accordance with regulations.
(VII) Restrictive conditions and other
important stipulations of the
transaction.
III. The calculation of transaction amounts in
the preceding paragraph shall be
conducted in accordance with Paragraph
2, Article 14, and the term "within the
preceding year" shall be calculated as a
basis of the date of occurrence of the
current transaction. The same shall be
submitted to the Audit Committee for
approval in accordance with these
Regulations and submitted to the Board
of Directors for approval. For the
following transactions between the
Company and its subsidiaries or
subsidiaries which issued shares or total
capital are 100% held by the Company
either directly or indirectly, the Audit
Committee and Board of Directors shall
authorize the Chairman to decide within
the amount specified in Article 6, and
then submit to the latest Audit
Committee for approval and Board of
Directors for reactive recognition.
(I) Acquisition or disposal of business
use or the right-of-use asset.
(II) Acquisition or disposal of real
property for business use.
When the transaction is submitted to the
Audit Committee in accordance with the
preceding paragraph, the Company shall
take into full consideration each
independent director's opinions. If an
independent director objects to the board
of directors to an objection or retain an
opinion, it shall be recorded in the minutes
of the board of directors meeting.
IV. Acquisition of real property or right-of-
use assets to a related party shall be
assessed in accordance with the
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Board of Directors' Meeting.
IV. Acquisition of real property from a related
party shall be assessed in accordance with
the following methods, which shall be
evaluated in accordance with the following
methods (for acquiring land and structures
in the same one-step), the transaction costs
shall be evaluated separately in accordance
with any of the following methods:
(I)
Based upon the related party's
transaction price plus necessary
interest on funding and the costs to be
duly borne by the buyer. "Necessary
interest on funding" is imputed as the
weighted average interest rate on
borrowing in the year the Company
purchases the property; provided, it
may not be higher than the maximum
non-financial industry lending rate
announced by the competent local
authority.
(II)
Total loan value appraisal from a
financial institution where the related
party has previously created a
mortgage on the property as security
for a loan; provided, the actual
cumulative amount loaned by the
financial institution shall have been
70% or more of the financial
institution's appraised loan value of
the property and the period of the
loan shall have been one year or
more. However, this shall not apply
where the financial institution is a
related party of one of the trading
counterparties.
V.
Acquisition of real property from a related
party, except for the appraisal of the real
property costs in accordance with the
preceding paragraph, shall be engaged in
the appraisal of the real property
acquisition costs and the specific opinion
shall be submitted to the CPAs for review
and the specific opinion.
VI. If the acquisition of real property from a
related party is subject to the following
circumstances, the Company shall not
apply for the acquisition of real property
from the related party, but shall still be
required to comply with the provisions of
Paragraph 2:
(I)
The related party acquired the real
property from inheritance or as a gift.
(II) The date of acquisition of the related
party is over 5 years.
(III) The real property is acquired from the
related party to the signing of a joint
constructioncontract orthe





reasonableness of the transaction costs
shall be assessed in accordance with the
following methods (for the acquisition of
land and structures, the transaction costs
for the land and the structures shall be
separately appraised on the following
means:
(I) Based upon the related party's
transaction price plus necessary
interest on funding and the costs to be
duly borne by the buyer. "Necessary
interest on funding" is imputed as the
weighted average interest rate on
borrowing in the year the Company
purchases the property; provided, it
may not be higher than the maximum
non-financial industry lending rate
announced by the competent local
authority.
(II) Total loan value appraisal from a
financial institution where the related
party has previously created a
mortgage on the property as security
for a loan; provided, the actual
cumulative amount loaned by the
financial institution shall have been
70% or more of the financial
institution's appraised loan value of
the property and the period of the loan
shall have been one year or more.
V.
Acquisition of real property or right-of-
use assets to a related party shall be
conducted in addition to the assessment
of the cost of the property or right-of-use
asset in accordance with the preceding
paragraph, and an accountant shall also
be engaged to re-examine the CPA's
appraisal and the specific opinion.
VI. If any of the following situations apply
to a related party acquiring real property
or its right-of-use asset, the provisions of
the Paragraph 4 and 5 shall apply, but
shall still be handled in accordance with
the provisions of Paragraph 2 and
Paragraph 3:
(I) The related party acquired real
property or right-of-use asset from
inheritance or as a gift.
(II) The time of acquisition of a related
party for acquisition of real property
or its right-of-use asset is over 5
years.
(III) The real property is acquired from the
related party to the signing of a joint
construction contract or the
construction of the real property by
the related party of the Company or
the engaging party on the land lease.
(IV) The Company and its subsidiaries, or
directly or indirectly hold 100% of
the total issued shares or capital of the
Company, and acquire the real estate
right-use assets for business use.
VII. Acquisition of real property or right-of-
use assets from a related party, if the
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construction of the real property by
the related party of the Company or
the engaging party on the land lease.
VII. If the results of the appraisal conducted in
accordance with Paragraph 4 of this Article
are less than the transaction price, the
Company shall comply with Paragraph 7,
if the results of the appraisal are lower than
the transaction price. However, where the
following circumstances exist, objective
evidence has been submitted and specific
opinions on reasonableness have been
obtained from a professional real estate
appraiser and a CPA have been obtained,
this restriction shall not apply:
(I)
Where the related party acquired
undeveloped land or leased land, it
may submit a proof of compliance
with one of the following conditions:
1. Where undeveloped land is
appraised in accordance with the
means in the preceding Article,
and structures according to the
related party's construction cost
plus reasonable construction
profit are valued in excess of the
actual transaction price. The
"Reasonable construction profit"
shall be deemed the average gross
operating profit margin of the
related party's construction
division over the most recent
three years or the gross profit
margin for the construction
industry for the most recent
period as announced by the
Ministry of Finance, whichever is
lower.
2. Completed transactions by
unrelated parties within the
preceding year involving other
floors of the same property or
neighboring or closely valued
parcels of land, where the land
area and transaction terms are
similar after calculation of
reasonable price discrepancies in
floor or area land prices in
accordance with standard property
market practices.
3. Completed leasing transactions by
unrelated parties for other floors
of the same property from within
the preceding year, where the
transaction terms are similar after
calculation of reasonable price
discrepancies among floors in
accordance with standard property
leasing market practices.
(II)
Where the Company acquiring real
estatefromarelated party provides






transaction price, it shall be handled in
accordance with Paragraph 8. However,
where the following circumstances exist,
objective evidence has been submitted
and specific opinions on reasonableness
have been obtained from a professional
real estate appraiser and a CPA have
been obtained, this restriction shall not
apply:
(I) Where the related party acquired
undeveloped land or leased land, it
may submit a proof of compliance
with one of the following conditions:
1. Where undeveloped land is
appraised in accordance with the
means in the preceding Article,
and structures according to the
related party's construction cost
plus reasonable construction profit
are valued in excess of the actual
transaction price. The "Reasonable
construction profit" shall be
deemed the average gross
operating profit margin of the
related party's construction
division over the most recent three
years or the gross profit margin
for the construction industry for
the most recent period as
announced by the Ministry of
Finance, whichever is lower.
2. Completed transactions by
unrelated parties within the
preceding year involving other
floors of the same property or
neighboring or closely valued
parcels of land, where the land
area and transaction terms are
similar after calculation of
reasonable price discrepancies in
floor or area land prices in
accordance with standard property
market practices.
(II) Where the Company acquiring ore
leasing a real estate from a related
party or provides evidence that the
terms of the transaction are similar to
the terms of transactions completed
for the acquisition of neighboring or
closely valued parcels of land of a
similar size by unrelated parties
within the preceding year.
(III) The transaction cases as mentioned in
the neighboring areas (I) and (II) are
the same as the same or the same
block of the present value of the
transaction. The area of the
transaction is not less than 500 meters
or the present value of the transaction.
The area of the transaction is not less
than 500 meters or the present value
of the company's public
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reason
evidence that the terms of the
transaction are similar to the terms of
transactions completed for the
acquisition of neighboring or closely
valued parcels of land of a similar
size by unrelated parties within the
preceding year.
(III)
The transaction cases in the
neighboring areas as the "close" or
"adjacent" in the adjacent area stated
in Paragraph (I) and (II) shall be the
same as the same or a nearby-view of
the present value of the transaction.
The area of the transaction is not less
than 500 meters or the present value
of the company's public
announcements. The area of the "less
than the area of the transaction is a
similar area"; the area used for the
transaction is a minimum of 50% of
the area of the transaction. The term
"within a year" shall be calculated as
the base for the transaction.
VIII. Where the Company acquires real estate
from a related party and the results of
appraisals conducted in accordance with the
Paragraph 4 and 7 of this Article are
uniformly lower than the transaction price,
the following steps shall be taken:
(I)
The Company shall set aside special
reserve in accordance with Article 41,
Paragraph 1, Article 41 of the
Securities and Exchange Act, and
shall not distribute or increase capital
allocation. And a special reserve shall
be set aside for the amount of
investment accounted for using
equity method by the Company's
investment in the equity method. The
special reserve shall be set aside in
proportion to the amount of shares
that are listed in the securities and
exchange act in proportion to the
amount of shareholding. If the special
reserve is set aside for special
reserve, the asset acquired shall be
recognized as a reduction in price or
the disposition or the restoration of
the original state or the original
compensation or restoration of the
original state of the asset, or the other
evidence shall be used to determine
that the special reserve can be used
after obtaining the consent from the
competent authority.
(II)
The independent director of the Audit
Committee shall be conducted in
accordance with Article 218 of the
Company Act.
(III)
The status of the handling of the
transaction shall be reported to the
shareholders' meeting (I) and (II).
The details ofthe transactionshallbe






than a year" shall be calculated as the
area of transaction with the
transaction subject and calculated
retroactively for the year of the
transaction.
VIII. When acquiring real property or right-of-
use assets from a related party, if the
results of the appraisal conducted in
accordance with the appraisal results in
Paragraph 4, 5 and 7 of this Article are
lower than the transaction price, the
following items shall be taken:
(I) The difference between the
transaction price and the appraised
cost of the asset shall be set aside in
accordance with Article 41, Paragraph
1 of the Securities and Exchange Act,
and shall not be distributed or used
for capital increase or capital increase.
If the investors are publicly listed
companies and employ an equity
method to account for its investment
in the Company, then the special
reserve shall be set aside pro rata in a
proportion as per Article 41-1 of the
Securities and Exchange Act. If the
special reserve is set aside for special
reserve, the asset shall be recognized
as a reduction in the price of the asset
or the leased or leased, or the asset is
subject to a reduced price. The
Company shall also be able to make
such special reserve to be used to
make the appropriate compensation or
restore the contract or to be a
reasonable or void of the leased or
restoring the lease, or to be further
verified by the competent authority.
(II) The independent director of the Audit
Committee shall be conducted in
accordance with Article 218 of the
Company Act.
(III) The handling of the preceding two
subparagraphs shall be reported to the
shareholders' meeting and the details
of the transaction shall be disclosed in
the parent Company's Annual Report
and the Prospectus.
(IV) Acquisition of real property from a
related party or its right-of-use asset,
if any, if there is other evidence
indicating that the transaction is not a
business regular, shall also be
conducted in accordance with the
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reason
disclosed in the Annual Report and
the Prospectus of the parent company.
Atrticle 9. CPA's opinion on the acquisition or
disposal of securities:
The Company and its Subsidiaries before
the acquisition or disposal of marketable
securities, the latest financial statements of
the object company audited or reviewed by
certified public accountant should be
acquired before Date of the Event for the
assessment and reference of transaction
price. If the transaction falls in one of the
following circumstances and the
transaction price reaches 20% of the
Company's paid-in capital or NT$300
million, opinions in respect of a rational
transaction price have to be sought before
Date of the Event from certified public
accountant, if the certified public
accountant’s opinion is under an
professional report which shall be handled
in accordance with the provision of
Auditing Standard No.20 promulgated by
Accounting Research and Development
Foundation; However, this restriction does
not apply to any quoted prices in an active
market or as otherwise provided by the
Financial Supervisory Commission, the
Securities and Futures Commission.
I.
Acquisition or disposal of marketable
securities not listed on a stock exchange
or traded on the over-the-counter market.
II.
Acquisition or disposal of private
placement securities.

Atrticle 9. CPA's opinion on the acquisition or
disposal of securities:
The Company, when acquiring or disposing
of marketable securities shall, prior to the
Date of the Occurrence, obtain the latest
financial statements of the object company
audited or reviewed by certified public
accountant for the assessment and reference
of transaction price. Should the transaction
price reach 20% of the Company's paid-in
capital or NT$300 million, opinions in
respect of a rational transaction price have
to be sought from a certified public
accountant prior to the Date of the
Occurrence. If the CPA needs to use the
report of an expert as evidence, the CPA
shall do so in accordance with the
provisions of Statement of Auditing
Standards No. 20 published by the ARDF.
However, this restriction does not apply to
any quoted prices in an active market or as
otherwise provided by the Financial
Supervisory Commission, the Securities
and Futures Commission.


The
amendments
are subject to
the
Regulations
Governing
the
Acquisition
and Disposal
of Assets by
Public
Companies.
Atrticle 10. Acquisition or disposal of membership
card or intangible asset:
If the transaction amount of the
membership or intangible asset transaction
amount reaches 20% of the Company's
paid-in capital or NT$300 million, the
CPA shall contact CPAs before the date of
occurrence of the event, and shall request
CPAs to express an opinion on the
reasonableness of the transaction price.
The CPA shall also comply with the
provisions of the Accounting Standards
Bulletin 20 of the Accounting Standards
for Research and Development Funds.
Atrticle 10. Acquisition or disposal of intangible assets
or its right-of-use asset or its membership
Acquisition or disposal of intangible assets
or the use of the right-of-use asset or the
asset or the membership's membership
amount reaches 20% or more of the
Company's paid-in capital or NT$300
million, except for transactions with the
government authorities.


The content
of the
amendment
to the
provisions
and the
amended text
in accordance
with the
provisions of
the
Amendment
Letter
1070341072
Letter dated
November
26, 2018.
Atrticle 12. Trading of derivative products
I.
When the Company and its subsidiaries
engage in derivatives trading, the
principles and guidelines, operating
procedures, risk management measures
and regular evaluation methods, which
shall be conducted in accordance with the
provisions of the “Operating Procedures
for Derivative Product Transactions”
formulated by the Company and its
subsidiaries, respectively.
II.
When the Company and its subsidiaries
engage in derivatives trading, the Board of
Directors shall exercise effective
supervision and management in
Atrticle 12. Trading of derivative products
I.
For derivatives trading, the transaction
principles and guidelines, operating
procedures, risk management measures
and regular evaluation methods shall be
established in accordance with the
provisions of the “Operating Procedures
for Derivative Product Transactions” set
out in the preceding paragraph.
II.
For derivatives trading, the Board of
Directors shall exercise effective
supervision and management in
accordance with the following principles:
The content
of the
amendment
to the
provisions
and the
amended text
in accordance
with the
provisions of
the
Amendment
Letter
1070341072
Letter dated

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accordance with the following principles:
(I)
The designated senior management
shall always pay attention to the
monitoring and control of derivatives
trading at all times.
(II) Regularly evaluate whether the
performance of derivatives
transactions meets the established
operating strategies and whether the
risks are within the scope of the
Company and its subsidiaries.
III. The Company and its subsidiaries shall
establish a log book for derivatives trading,
and shall set up a log book for the
following matters.
(I)
The type, amount and date of
approval of the derivatives trading.
(II) Assessment report on positions held
in derivative transactions:
1. The positions held in the
derivatives trading shall be
assessed at least once a week.
2. Hedging transactions that need to
be conducted in the course of
business need shall be assessed at
least twice a month.
The above assessment report shall
be submitted to senior executives
authorized by the Board.
(III) Regularly evaluate whether the
performance of derivatives trading
meets the established operating
strategies and whether the risks are
within the scope of the Company's
permitted scope.
(IV) Periodically evaluate whether the risk
management measures currently used
are appropriate and faithfully
implemented the procedures for
engaging in derivatives trading.
(V) For major derivatives transactions,
the Audit Committee shall be
approved by the Audit Committee
and submitted to the Board of
Directors for resolution.
V.
Internal audit system:
The internal auditors of the Company shall
regularly review the legitimacy of the
internal control on derivatives trading, and
audit whether the trading department
conforms to the procedures for derivative
product trading. They shall also draft the
audit report. If any major violations are
found, they shall report to the Audit
Committeeinwriting.





(I) The designated senior management
shall always pay attention to the
monitoring and control of derivatives
trading at all times.
(II) Regularly evaluate whether the
performance of derivatives
transactions meets the established
operating strategies and whether the
risks are within the scope of the
Company and its subsidiaries.
III. For derivatives trading, a log book shall be
established. For the following items, please
refer to the provisions for reference.
(I) The type, amount and date of
approval of the derivatives trading.
(II) Assessment report on positions held
in derivative transactions:
1. The positions held in the
derivatives trading shall be
assessed at least once a week.
2. Hedging transactions that need to
be conducted in the course of
business need shall be assessed at
least twice a month.
The above assessment report shall
be submitted to senior executives
authorized by the Board.
(III) Regularly evaluate whether the
performance of derivatives trading
meets the established operating
strategies and whether the risks are
within the scope of the Company's
permitted scope.
(IV) Periodically evaluate whether the risk
management measures currently used
are appropriate and faithfully
implemented the procedures for
engaging in derivatives trading.
(V) For major derivatives transactions, the
Audit Committee shall be approved
by the Audit Committee and
submitted to the Board of Directors
for resolution.
IV. Internal audit system:
The internal auditors of the Company shall
regularly review the legitimacy of the
internal control on derivatives trading, and
audit whether the trading department
conforms to the procedures for derivative
product trading. They shall also draft the
audit report. If any major violations are
found, they shall report to the Audit
Committee in writing.




November
26, 2018.
Atrticle 13. Business combination, demerger,
acquisition, and transfer of shares
I.
When the Company conducts merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares,
an opinion shall be submitted to the CPAs,
lawyers, or securities underwriter for the
reasonableness of the exchange ratio,
acquisition price, or distribution of cash or
other property of the Company. The Audit
Committee shall be submitted to the Audit
Committee for approval and the Board
meeting for discussion and passage. A

Atrticle 13. Business combination, demerger,
acquisition, and transfer of shares
I.
When the Company conducts merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares,
an opinion shall be submitted to the CPAs,
lawyers, or securities underwriter for the
reasonableness of the exchange ratio,
acquisition price, or distribution of cash or
other property of the Company. The Audit
Committee shall be submitted to the Audit
Committee for approval and the Board
meeting for discussion and passage. A

The
amendment
and
adjustment of
the provisions
was made as
per the
Regulations
Governing
the
Acquisition
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subsidiary, which owns directly or
indirectly owns 100% of the total issued
shares or capital, shall be exempted from
the merger and acquisition of the entire
issued share capital of the subsidiary or the
total number of issued shares or capital.
II.
The Company shall, in the event of a
merger, demerger, acquisition, or
acquisition of a substantial part of the
agreed content and related matters, make
public information on the shareholders'
meeting before the meeting. The Company
shall also make a record of the
shareholders' meeting to the shareholders'
meeting for the purpose of the merger,
demerger, or acquisition of the said
proposal. However, this restriction shall
not apply to any matter that may be
approved by a shareholders' meeting to be
resolved by a resolution of a shareholders'
meeting. If the shareholders' meeting is
unable to convene and vote on the number
of shares held by the Company or the
Company's shares, or the proposal is
resolved by the shareholders' meeting, the
cause of the meeting shall be stated
immediately, and the date of the meeting
shall be stated.
III. When the Company conducts merger,
demerger, or acquisition, all participating
companies shall convene a Board of
Directors and a shareholder meeting on the
day of the meeting to resolve the matter.
The resolution shall be held on the same
day of the meeting. The resolution shall be
discussed and divided into the meeting,
split, or acquisition of the relevant matters.
A company participating in a transfer of
shares shall call a Board of Directors
meeting on the day of the transaction,
unless another law provides otherwise or
the competent authority has given special
circumstances prior to the approval of the
competent authority.
IV. The Company participating in a merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares
may not arbitrarily alter the share
exchange ratio or acquisition price unless
under the below-listed circumstances, and
shall stipulate the circumstances permitting
alteration in the contract for the merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares.




II.
III.
IV.
subsidiary, which owns directly or
indirectly owns 100% of the total issued
shares or capital, shall be exempted from
the merger and acquisition of the entire
issued share capital of the subsidiary or the
total number of issued shares or capital.
The Company shall, in the event of a
merger, demerger, acquisition, or
acquisition of a substantial part of the
agreed content and related matters, make
public information on the shareholders'
meeting before the meeting. The Company
shall also make a record of the
shareholders' meeting to the shareholders'
meeting for the purpose of the merger,
demerger, or acquisition of the said
proposal. However, this restriction shall
not apply to any matter that may be
approved by a shareholders' meeting to be
resolved by a resolution of a shareholders'
meeting. If the shareholders' meeting is
unable to convene and vote on the number
of shares held by the Company or the
Company's shares, or the proposal is
resolved by the shareholders' meeting, the
cause of the meeting shall be stated
immediately, and the date of the meeting
shall be stated.
When the Company conducts merger,
demerger, or acquisition, all participating
companies shall convene a Board of
Directors and a shareholder meeting on the
day of the meeting to resolve the matter.
The resolution shall be held on the same
day of the meeting. The resolution shall be
discussed and divided into the meeting,
split, or acquisition of the relevant matters.
A company participating in a transfer of
shares shall call a Board of Directors
meeting on the day of the transaction,
unless another law provides otherwise or
the competent authority has given special
circumstances prior to the approval of the
competent authority.
A company whose shares are listed on the
Stock Exchange or traded over the counter
shall prepare a full written record of the
following information and retain the
following information for a 5-year period:
(I) Basic information of personnel:
Including the person involved in the
planning and implementation of the
merger, demerger, acquisition, or
transfer of a transfer plan or plan of
the Company before the public
information disclosure: The title,
name and national ID number (for
foreign nationals is the passport
number).
(II) Dates of important events: Including
the signing of letter of intent or
memorandum of understanding, the
hiring of financial or legal advisors,
the signing of a contract, and the date
of the Board of Directors'meeting.
(III) Important documents and minute
books: Including merger, demerger,



of Assets by
Public
Companies.

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(II)
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V.
The Company shall not arbitrarily alter the
share exchange ratio or acquisition price,
and shall stipulate the circumstances in the
contract for the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares:
(I)
Cash capital increase, issuance of
convertible corporate bonds, or the
issuance of bonus shares, issuance of
corporate bonds with warrants,
preferred shares with warrants, stock
warrants, or other equity based
securities.
(II) An action, such as a disposal of major
assets that affects the Company's
financial operations.
(III) An event, such as a major disaster or
major change in technology that
affects shareholder equity or share
price.
(IV) The adjustment of the Company's
participating in the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares by
any party to buy back treasury stocks
by law.
(V) An increase or decrease in the
number of entities or the Company
participating in the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares.
(VI) Other conditions that the contract
stipulates may be altered and that
have been publicly disclosed.
VI. The contract for participation by the
Company in a merger, demerger,
acquisition, or of shares shall record the
rights and obligations of the Company
participating in the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares, and shall
also record the following:
(I)
Handling of breach of contract
(II) Principles for the handling of equity-
type securities previously issued or
treasury stock previously bought back
by any company that is extinguished
in a merger or that is demerged.
(III) The amount of treasury stock
participating companies are permitted
according to laws to buy back after
the record date of calculation of the
share exchange ratio, and the
principles for handling thereof.
(IV) The method of handling changes in
the number of participating entities or
companies.
(V) Expected execution progress and
expected completion schedule.
(VI) When the plan is overdue, the
scheduled date of convening a
shareholders' meeting shall be
convened according to the laws and
regulations.






acquisition, or transfer of shares,
letter of intent or memorandum of
understanding, important contracts,
and minutes of Board of Directors
meetings.
V.
When participating in a merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of another
company's shares, the Company shall,
within two days commencing immediately
from the date of passage of a resolution by
the Board, report (in the prescribed format
and via the Internet-based information
system) the information set out in
subparagraphs 1 and 2 of the preceding
paragraph to the authority for recordation.
VI. Where another company(s) participating in
a merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer
of another company's shares is neither
listed on an exchange nor has its shares
traded on the over-the-counter venue, the
Company shall sign an agreement with
such company whereby the latter is
required to abide by the provisions of the
preceding Paragraphs 1 and 2.
VII. The person involved in the merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares
of the Company shall issue a written letter
of confidentiality. The Company shall
issue a written letter of undertaking to the
public, and shall not disclose the content of
the plan and shall not engage in any other-
party securities or other equity-type
securities that are related to the Company's
shares and other equity-type transactions
before the disclosure of the information.
VIII. The Company shall not arbitrarily alter the
share exchange ratio or acquisition price,
and shall stipulate the circumstances in the
contract for the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares:
(I) Cash capital increase, issuance of
corporate bonds, distribution of
shares, issuance of corporate bonds,
preferred shares with warrants, stock
warrants, and other equity-based
securities.
(II) An action, such as a disposal of major
assets that affects the Company's
financial operations.
(III) An event, such as a major disaster or
major change in technology that
affects shareholder equity or share
price.
(IV) The adjustment of the Company's
participating in the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares by
any party to buy back treasury stocks
by law.
(V) Changes in the number of entities or
companies participating in the merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of
shares.
(VI) Other conditions that have been
altered in the contract and have been
disclosed public disclosures.
IX. When participating in a merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares, the
acquisition, or transfer of shares,
letter of intent or memorandum of
understanding, important contracts,
and minutes of Board of Directors
meetings.
When participating in a merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of another
company's shares, the Company shall,
within two days commencing immediately
from the date of passage of a resolution by
the Board, report (in the prescribed format
and via the Internet-based information
system) the information set out in
subparagraphs 1 and 2 of the preceding
paragraph to the authority for recordation.
Where another company(s) participating in






a merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer

of another company's shares is neither
listed on an exchange nor has its shares
traded on the over-the-counter venue, the
Company shall sign an agreement with
such company whereby the latter is
required to abide by the provisions of the
preceding Paragraphs 1 and 2.
The person involved in the merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares
of the Company shall issue a written letter
of confidentiality. The Company shall
issue a written letter of undertaking to the
public, and shall not disclose the content of

the plan and shall not engage in any other-
party securities or other equity-type
securities that are related to the Company's

share exchange ratio or acquisition price,
and shall stipulate the circumstances in the

contract for the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares:
(I) Cash capital increase, issuance of
corporate bonds, distribution of
shares, issuance of corporate bonds,
preferred shares with warrants, stock
warrants, and other equity-based
securities.
(II) An action, such as a disposal of major
assets that affects the Company's
financial operations.
(III) An event, such as a major disaster or
major change in technology that
affects shareholder equity or share
price.
(IV) The adjustment of the Company's
participating in the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares by
any party to buy back treasury stocks
by law.
(V) Changes in the number of entities or
companies participating in the merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of
shares.
(VI) Other conditions that have been
altered in the contract and have been
disclosed public disclosures.
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VII. After public disclosure of the information,
if the Company participating in the merger,
demerger, acquisition, or share transfer
intends further to carry out a merger,
demerger, acquisition, or share transfer
with another company, all of the
participating companies shall carry out a
new the procedures or legal actions that
had originally been completed toward the
merger, demerger, acquisition, or share
transfer; except that where the number of
participating companies is decreased and a
participating company's shareholders
meeting has adopted a resolution
authorizing the Board to alter the limits of
authority, such participating company may
be exempted from calling another
shareholders meeting to resolve on the
matter anew.
VIII. For a company that participates in a
merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer
of a company's shares is not a public
company, the Company shall sign an
agreement with its signature and seal in
accordance with the provisions of Article
3, 4 and 7 of these Regulations.

X.
XI.
contract shall be stated in the contract, and
shall also include the following:
(I) Handling of breach of contract
(II) Principles for handling equity-type
securities previously issued or
treasury stock previously bought back
by a company that is extinguished in a
merger or that is demerged.
(III) The amount of treasury stock
participating companies are permitted
according to laws to buy back after
the record date of calculation of the
share exchange ratio, and the
principles for handling thereof.
(IV) The method of handling changes in
the number of participating entities or
companies.
(V) Expected execution progress and
expected completion schedule.
(VI) When the plan is overdue, the
scheduled date of convening a
shareholders' meeting shall be
convened according to the laws and
regulations.
If the Company participates in the merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares,



and the information is publicly open to the
Company, such as the participation in the
number of shares in the Company and the
other companies, such as the participation
in the number of participating parties and
the Company's shares, such as the number
of shares involved in the number of shares
held, split, acquisition, or transfer of
shares, the Company shall be required to
take the following actions for the
implementation of the merger, demerger,
acquisition, or transfer of shares. The
procedures for the completion of the
merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer
of shares shall be carried out.
If a company participating in a merger,
demerger, acquisition, or transfer of a
company is not a public company, the
Company shall sign an agreement with its
signatures and shall comply with the
provisions of Paragraph 3 and 7 and 10 of
this Article.
Atrticle 14. Information Disclosure
I.
If any of the following conditions relating
to the Company’s acquisition or disposal
of assets, the relevant information shall be
announced and reported in the appropriate
format as prescribed by regulations on
related information declaration website
within two days commencing immediately
from the date of occurrence:
(I)
Acquisition or disposal of real
property, or acquisition or disposal of
any assets other than real property
from a related party and the
transaction amount of which is 20%
or more of the paid-in capital of the
Company, or 10% or more of the
aggregate amount of assets of the
Company, or NT$300 million or
more from a related party; provided
Atrticle 14.
I.
Information Disclosure
If any of the following conditions relating
to the Company’s acquisition or disposal
of assets, the relevant information shall be
announced and reported in the appropriate
format as prescribed by regulations on
related information declaration website
within two days commencing immediately
from the Date of occurrence of the Event:
(I) Acquisition or disposal of real
property, or acquisition or disposal of
any assets or the right of using other
than real property from a related party
and the transaction amount of which
is 20% or more of the paid-in capital
of the Company, or 10% or more of
the aggregate amount of assets of the
Company, or NT$ 300 million or
more from a related party; provided

The content
of the
amendment
to the
provisions
and the
amended text
in accordance
with the
provisions of
the
Amendment
Letter
1070341072
Letter dated
November
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reason
that it should not be applicable to
trading of government bonds or
bonds under repurchase and resale
agreements, or subscription or
redemption of domestic money
market funds.
(II) Merger, spin-off, acquisition, or
transfer of shares.
(III) Losses from derivatives trading
reaching the limits on aggregate
losses or losses on individual
contracts set out in the relevant
procedures adopted by the Company.
(IV) Where the type of asset acquired or
disposed is equipment for business
use, the trading counterparty is not a
Related Party, and the transaction
amount is more than NT$500 million.
(V) Where land is acquired under an
arrangement on engaging others to
build on the Company's own land,
engaging others to build on rented
land, joint construction and allocation
of housing units, joint construction
and allocation of ownership
percentages, or joint construction and
separate sale, and the amount the
Company expects to invest in the
transaction is more than NT$500
million.
(VI) Where there is an asset transaction
(other than any such transactions
referred to in the preceding (I)-(V)
subparagraphs), a disposal of
receivables to a financial institution,
or an investment in mainland China
area that reaches 20% or more of
paid-in capital or NT$300 million;
provided, this shall not apply to the
following circumstances: However,
this shall not apply to the following
circumstances:
1. Trading of government bonds.
2. Trading of bonds under
repurchase/resale agreements and
the purchase or redemption of
domestic money market funds
issued by domestic securities and
investment trust.
II.
The amount of transactions above shall be
calculated as follows:
(I)
The amount of any individual
transaction.
(II) The cumulative transaction amount of
acquisitions and disposals of the same
type of underlying asset with the
same trading counterparty within the
preceding year.
(III) The cumulative transaction amount of
real estate acquisitions and disposals
(cumulative acquisitions and
disposals, respectively) within the
same development project within the
preceding year.





that it should not be applicable to
trading of government bonds or bonds
under repurchase and resale
agreements, or subscription or
redemption of domestic money
market funds.
(II) Merger, spin-off, acquisition, or
transfer of shares.
(III) Losses from derivatives trading
reaching the limits on aggregate
losses or losses on individual
contracts set out in the relevant
procedures adopted by the Company.
(IV) Where the type of asset acquired or
disposed is equipment for business
use or its rights of using, the trading
counterparty is not a Related Party
and the transaction amount is more
than NT$500 million.
(V) Where land is acquired under an
arrangement on engaging others to
build on the Company's own land,
engaging others to build on rented
land, joint construction and allocation
of housing units, joint construction
and allocation of ownership
percentages, or joint construction and
separate sale, and counterpart is non-
related party, the amount the
Company expects to invest in the
transaction is more than NT$500
million.
(VI) Where there is an asset transaction
(other than any such transactions
referred to in the preceding (I)-(V)
subparagraphs), a disposal of
receivables to a financial institution,
or an investment in mainland China
area that reaches 20% or more of
paid-in capital or NT$300 million;
provided, this shall not apply to the
following circumstances: However,
this shall not apply to the following
circumstances:
1. Trading of domestic government
bonds.
2. Trading of bonds under
repurchase/resale agreements and
the purchase or redemption of
domestic money market funds
issued by domestic securities and
investment trust.
II.
The amount of transactions above shall be
calculated as follows:
(I) The amount of any individual
transaction.
(II) The cumulative transaction amount of
acquisitions and disposals of the same
type of underlying asset with the
same trading counterparty within the
preceding year.
(III) The cumulative transaction amount of
real estate acquisitions and disposals
(cumulative acquisitions and
disposals, respectively) within the
same development project within the
preceding year.



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(IV) The cumulative transaction amount of
acquisitions and disposals
(cumulative acquisitions and
disposals, respectively) of the same
security within the preceding year.
(The following is omitted intentionally)

(IV) The cumulative transaction amount of
acquisitions and disposals
(cumulative acquisitions and
disposals, respectively) of the same
security within the preceding year.
(The following is omitted intentionally)
Atrticle 15. Acquisition or disposal of assets by
subsidiaries
I.
In case the assets acquired or disposed by
its subsidiaries re-invested by the
Company, it shall be handled as per these
Procedures after the Amendments to
Acquisition or Disposal of Assets adopted
by the shareholders' meeting on June 22,
2017. The same shall be true when there is
any amendment to these Procedures. The
Company's "Procedures for Handling of
Assets and Disposal of Assets" (except for
the subsidiary company engaging in
derivatives trading, which shall be
implemented in accordance with the
"Procedures for Engaging in Derivatives
Trading") shall be abolished (provided that
the Company shall be engaged in the
handling procedures for derivatives
trading).
II. If a subsidiary of the Company is not a
public company and the acquired or
disposed assets meet the information
declaration standards, the Company shall
also be announced, reported and
documented. In the event of a subsidiary
company's declaration standards, "20% of
the Company's paid-in capital or 10% of
total assets" shall be based on the
Company's paid-in capital or total assets.
III. The subsidiary companies reinvested by
the Company may vary from their
respective corporate governance
regulations due to their local laws and
regulations. The duties of the Board of
Directors, the Chairman, Independent
Directors, the Board of Directors and the
Audit Committee shall be held by the
responsible unit of the respective
subsidiary companies under the laws and
regulations of the subsidiary.

Atrticle 15. Acquisition or disposal of assets by
subsidiaries
I.
In case the assets acquired or disposed by
its subsidiaries re-invested by the
Company, it shall be handled as per these
Procedures after the Amendments to
Acquisition or Disposal of Assets adopted
by the shareholders' meeting on June 22,
2017. The same shall be true when there is
any amendment to these Procedures. The
Company's "Procedures for Handling of
Assets and Disposal of Assets" (except for
the subsidiary company engaging in
derivatives trading, which shall be
implemented in accordance with the
"Procedures for Engaging in Derivatives
Trading") shall be abolished (provided that
the Company shall be engaged in the
handling procedures for derivatives
trading).
II.
If a subsidiary of the Company is not a
public company and its acquisition or
disposal of assets reaches the reporting
standard, the Company is responsible for
such information disclosure. In the event
of a subsidiary company's declaration
standards, "20% of the Company's paid-in
capital or 10% of total assets" shall be
based on the Company's paid-in capital or
total assets.
III. The subsidiary companies reinvested by
the Company may vary from their
respective corporate governance
regulations due to their local laws and
regulations. The duties of the Board of
Directors, the Chairman, Independent
Directors, the Board of Directors and the
Audit Committee shall be held by the
responsible unit of the respective
subsidiary companies under the regulations
of the local laws and regulations of the
subsidiary.


The
amendment is
made as per
the
Regulations
Governing
the
Acquisition
and Disposal
of Assets by
Public
Companies.
Atrticle 16. Declaration and announcement to related
parties for purchase of real property
In case the Company acquires real estate
from a related party, in addition to signing
the contract, the Company shall also make
a public announcement in accordance with
the provisions of the "Guidelines for
Handling Acquisition of Real Estate from
a Related Party by Public Companies"
promulgated by the competent authority
and draft predicted monthly cash flow for
one year since the signing of the contract.
The Company shall also assess the
necessity and anticipated benefit of the real
property acquisition and submit to the next
shareholders' meeting for approval and
recognition by the Auditing Committee.
This Company acquires real estate from a
related party may not proceed with the


Deleted
The current
Article 16 is
deleted from
the current
Article 16
and Article
14.

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transaction until the approval of the
shareholders' meeting and the recognition
of the Auditing Committee. If the
transaction amount reaches the provision
of Article 14 of these Procedures, the
Company shall make a public
announcement.
Atrticle 17. Supplementary Provisions
I.
Where the Company acquires or disposes
of assets to the public and the standard of
public disclosure, the Company shall
disclose the content of the public
announcement in the notes to the
financial statements and submit it to the
Shareholders' Meeting for reporting.
II.
If the employees of the Company violate
these Procedures and related regulations
in the process of handling with acquiring
or disposing assets, such employees shall
be subject to penalties based on the
seriousness of the violation and as per
human resource assessment regulations of
the Company.
III. Any matters not stipulated herein shall be
subject to related laws and related
regulations of the Company. If the
Company has amended the original
interpretation of the procedures for
acquisition or disposal of assets by the
competent authority, the Company shall
comply with the new letter of order.
IV. The Procedures thereof shall be effective
upon approval by the Audit Committee
first and then by Board of Directors,
subject to the resolution of Shareholders'
Meeting. The same shall apply to any
amendments to the Procedures.
When submitting the procedures for
acquisition or disposal of assets to the
Board for deliberation, the comments of
each Independent Director shall be duly
considered, and the objection or
expression of reservations of such
Independent Director shall be clearly
recorded in the Board minute books.
V.
The approval of the Audit Committee as
required in these Procedures means the
agreement of more than half of all
Auditing Committee members. If the
approval of more than half of all audit
committee members as required is not
obtained, the Procedures may be
implemented if approved by more than
two-thirds of all directors, and the
resolution of the audit committee shall be
recorded in the minute books of the
Board of Directors' Meeting.
VI. The terms of "all audit committee
members" and "all directors" used herein
shall be counted as the actual number of
persons currently holding those positions.
VII. 10% of the total assets shall be calculated
by referring to the total assets of the
stand-alone or individual financial
statements for the most recent term
prepared in accordance with the
Regulations Governing the Preparation of
Atrticle 16. Article 16 Supplementary Provisions
I.
If the employees of the Company violate
these Procedures and related regulations
in the process of handling with acquiring
or disposing assets, such employees shall
be subject to penalties based on the
seriousness of the violation and as per
human resource assessment regulations of
the Company.
II.
Any matters not stipulated herein shall be
subject to related laws and related
regulations of the Company. If the
Company has amended the original
interpretation of the procedures for
acquisition or disposal of assets by the
competent authority, the Company shall
comply with the new letter of order.
III. The Procedures thereof shall be effective
upon approval by the Audit Committee
first and then by Board of Directors,
subject to the resolution of Shareholders'
Meeting. The same shall apply to any
amendments to the Procedures.
When submitting the procedures for
acquisition or disposal of assets to the
Board for deliberation, the comments of
each Independent Director shall be duly
considered, and the objection or
expression of reservations of such
Independent Director shall be clearly
recorded in the Board minute books.
IV. The approval of the Audit Committee as
required in these Procedures means the
agreement of more than 50% of all
Auditing Committee members. If the
approval of more than half of all audit
committee members as required is not
obtained, the Procedures may be
implemented if approved by more than
two-thirds of all directors, and the
resolution of the audit committee shall be
recorded in the minute books of the
Board of Directors’meeting.
V.
The terms of"all audit committee
members"and"all directors"in these
Procedures shall be counted as the actual
number of persons currently holding
those positions.
VI. 10% of the total assets shall be calculated
by referring to the total assets of the
stand-alone or individual financial
statements for the most recent term
prepared in accordance with the
Regulations Governing the Preparation of
Financial Reports by Securities Issuers.
VII. These Operating Procedures were made
1. Change of
provisions:
deleted
prevailing
Article 16
and the
prevailing
Article 17
changes to
Article 16.
2. As per
current the
Regulations
Governing
the
Acquisition
and Disposal
of Assets by
Public
Companies,
deleted the
prevailing
Article 17-1.
3. Number
and date of
adding and
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Financial Reports by Securities Issuers.
VIII. These Operating Procedures were made
on October 30, 1996.
The first amendment was made on July 28,
1998.
The second amendment was made on
November 20, 1999.
The third amendment was made on June
12, 2004.
The fourth amendment was made on June
13, 2007.
The fifth amendment was made on June
16, 2009.
The sixth amendment was made on June
21, 2012.
The seventh amendment was made on June
11, 2014.
The eighth amendment was made on June
22, 2017.
The ninth amendment was made on June
21,2018.

on October 30, 1996.
The first amendment was made on July 28,
1998.
The second amendment was made on
November 20, 1999.
The third amendment was made on June
12, 2004.
The fourth amendment was made on June
13, 2007.
The fifth amendment was made on June
16, 2009.
The sixth amendment was made on June
21, 2012.
The seventh amendment was made on June
11, 2014.
The eighth amendment was made on June
22, 2017.
The ninth amendment was made on June
21, 2018.
The tenth amendment was made on June
21, 2019.

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Attachment 7

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Comparison Table for the Amendment to the Operating Procedures for Derivative

Product Transactions

Product Transactions
Articles before amendment Articles after amendment Revision
reason
III.
Scope of Application
(I)
"Derivatives" used herein refers to
forward contracts, options contracts,
futures, swaps and compound
contracts combining the above
products, whose value is derived
from assets, interest rates, foreign
exchange rates, indexes or other
interests.
(II) The term "forward contracts" used
herein does not include insurance
contracts, performance contracts,
after-sales service contracts, long-
term leasing contracts, or long-term
purchase (sales) agreements.
(III) The transactions in relation to bond
margin trade shall be subject to
these Procedures.
III. Scope of Application:
(I)
"Derivatives" used herein refers to
forward contracts, options
contracts, futures contracts,
leverage margin contracts, or swap
contracts, whose value is derived
from a specified interest rate,
financial instrument price,
commodity price, foreign exchange
rate, index of prices or rates, credit
rating or credit index, or other
variable; or hybrid contracts
combining the above contracts; or
hybrid contracts or structured
products containing embedded
derivatives.
(II) The term "forward contracts" used
herein does not include insurance
contracts, performance contracts,
after-sales service contracts, long-
term leasing contracts, or long-term
purchase (sales) agreements.
The content of the
amendment to the
provisions and the
amended text in
accordance with the
provisions of the
Amendment Letter
1070341072 Letter
dated November 26,
2018.
IV.
Transaction Principles and Policies:
(I)
Types of Transactions
1. The Company upholds
reasonable and lawful principles
in transactions. The transacted
financial derivative products
include forward, option, future,
interest or exchange rate swap
and combination or hybrid
contracts of the above products.
2. The foreign exchange
transactions used herein consists
of hedging transactions (for non-
transaction purpose) and specific-
purpose transactions (for the
transaction purpose) by the
purposes of operation.
(II) Operating and hedging strategies
In dealing with financial derivative
transactions, the Company shall
select products that could mitigate
the risks or reasonably lock the
risks. The selected products shall be
based on those that could mitigate
risks brought by the Company's
business operation. In addition, the
transaction count parts shall be
banks that have daily business with
the Company to prevent from credit
risks. Before foreign exchange
operation, it must be clearly defined
as hedging or specific-purpose
transactions, so as to serve as the
basis for accounting.
(III) Separation of Powers and
Responsibilities
IV. Trading principles and policies:
(I) Types of Transactions
1. The Company upholds
reasonable and lawful principles
in transactions. The transacted
financial derivative products
include forward, option, future,
interest or swap and combination
or hybrid contracts of the above
products or structured above
products.
2. The foreign exchange
transactions used herein consists
of hedging transactions (for non-
transaction purpose) and
specific-purpose transactions (for
the transaction purpose) by the
purposes of operation.
(II) Operating and hedging strategies
In dealing with financial derivative
transactions, the Company shall
select products that could mitigate
the risks or reasonably locked risks.
The selected products shall be based
on those that could mitigate risks
brought by the Company's business
operation. In addition, the
transaction count parts shall be
banks that have daily business with
the Company to prevent from credit
risks. Before foreign exchange
operation, it must be clearly defined
as hedging or specific-purpose
transactions, so as to serve as the
basis for accounting.
(III) Separation of Powers and
Responsibilities
The content of the
amendment to the
provisions and the
amended text in
accordance with the
provisions of the
Amendment Letter
1070341072 Letter
dated November 26,
2018.

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1. Trading operators: Refer to staff
members in charge of executing
derivative product transactions,
collecting related information and
regulations on financial
derivative products, designing
hedging strategies and risk
disclosure, knowing the
Company's policies and ideas and
predicting the market trend and
risks before the transactions.
Excluding suggestions for
forward, swap and principal
protected financing deposit,
providing position and hedging
suggestions in line with the
Company's operating strategy and
implementing such strategy upon
the approval of directors.
(The following is omitted intentionally)
1. Trading operators: Refer to staff
members in charge of executing
derivative product transactions,
collecting related information
and regulations on financial
derivative products, designing
hedging strategies and risk
disclosure, knowing the
Company's policies and ideas
and predicting the market trend
and risks before the transactions.
Excluding suggestions for
forward, swap and principal
protected financing deposit,
providing position and hedging
suggestions in line with the
Company's operating strategy
and implementing such strategy
upon the approval of directors.
(The following is omitted intentionally)
X.
Supplementary Provisions:
(I)
The Procedures thereof shall be
effective upon approval by the
Audit Committee first and then by
Board of Directors, subject to the
resolution of Shareholders' Meeting.
The same shall apply to any
amendments to the Procedures.
(II) The approval of the Audit
Committee as required in these
Procedures means the agreement of
more than half of all Auditing
Committee members. If the
approval of more than half of all
audit committee members as
required is not obtained, the
Procedures may be implemented if
approved by more than two-thirds of
all directors, and the resolution of
the Audit Committee shall be
recorded in the minute books.
(III) The terms of "all audit committee
members" and "all directors" used
herein shall be counted as the actual
number of persons currently holding
those positions.
(IV) The amendment to these Operating
Procedures was made on July 19,
1997.
The first amendment was made on
July 28, 1999.
The second amendment was made
on June 14, 2006.
The third amendment was made on
June 22, 2010.
The fourth amendment was made
on June 11, 2014.
The fifth amendment was made on
June 25, 2015.
The sixth amendment was made on
June 21, 2018.
X.
Supplementary Provisions:
(I)
The Procedures thereof shall be
effective upon approval by the
Audit Committee first and then by
Board of Directors, subject to the
resolution of Shareholders'
Meeting. The same shall apply to
any amendments to the Procedures.
When these Procedures are
submitted to the Board of Directors
for deliberation, the Company shall
take into full consideration each
independent director's opinions. If
an independent director raises an
objection or reservation to the
Board of Directors, it shall be
recorded in the minute books of the
Board of Directors.
(II) The approval of the Audit
Committee as required in these
Procedures means the agreement of
more than 50% of all Auditing
Committee members. If the
approval of more than half of all
audit committee members as
required is not obtained, the
Procedures may be implemented if
approved by more than two-thirds
of all directors, and the resolution
of the audit committee shall be
recorded in the minute books of the
Board of Directors.
(III) The terms of "all audit committee
members" and "all directors" used
herein shall be counted as the actual
number of persons currently
holding those positions.
(IV) The amendment to these Operating
Procedures was made on July 19,
1997.
The first amendment was made on
July 28, 1999.
The second amendment was made
on June 14, 2006.
The third amendment was made on
June 22, 2010.
The fourth amendment was made
1. The amendments
are subject to the
Regulations Governing
the Acquisition and
Disposal of Assets by
Public Companies.
2. Number and date of
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on June 11, 2014.
The fifth amendment was made on
June 25, 2015.
The sixth amendment was made on
June 21, 2018.
The seventh amendment was made
on June 21, 2019.

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Attachment 8

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Comparison Table for the Amendment to Regulations Governing the Management of Endorsement and Guarantee

Articles before amendment Articles after amendment Revision
reason
Atrticle 8. Time limit and content of declaration:
The announcement to the competent
authority, declaration time limit and
contents shall be subject to related
regulations of competent authority.
1.
The Company shall announce
and report the previous month's
loan balances of its head office
and subsidiaries by the 10th day
of each month.
2.
The Company whose balance of
endorsements/guarantees
reaches one of the following
levels shall announce and report
such event within two days
commencing immediately from
the date of occurrence:
(1)
The aggregate balance of
endorsements/guarantees
by the Company and its
subsidiaries reaches 50%
or more of the Company's
net worth as stated in its
latest financial statement.
(2)
The balance of
endorsements/guarantees
by the Company and its
subsidiaries for a single
enterprise reaches 20% or
more of the Company's net
worth as stated in its latest
financial statement.
(3)
The balance of
endorsements/guarantees
by the Company and its
subsidiaries for a single
enterprise reaches NT$10
million or more and the
aggregate amount of all
endorsements/guarantees
for, investment of a long-
term nature in, and balance
of loans to, such enterprise
reaches 30% or more of
Company's net worth as
stated in its latest financial
statement.
(4)
The amount of new
endorsements/guarantees
made by the Company or
its subsidiaries reaches
NT$30 million or more,
and reaches 5% or more of
the Company's net worth
as stated in its latest
financial statement.
3.
The Company shall announce
and report on behalf of any
subsidiary thereof that is not a
Article 8
Time limit and content of declaration:
The announcement to the competent
authority, declaration time limit and
contents shall be subject to related
regulations of competent authority
1.
The Company shall announce
and report the previous month's
loan balances of its head office
and subsidiaries by the 10th day
of each month.
2.
The Company whose balance of
endorsements/guarantees
reaches one of the following
levels shall announce and report
such event within two days
commencing immediately from
the date of occurrence:
(1)
The aggregate balance of
endorsements/guarantees
by the Company and its
subsidiaries reaches 50%
or more of the Company's
net worth as stated in its
latest financial statement.
(2)
(2) The balance of
endorsements/guarantees
by the Company and its
subsidiaries for a single
enterprise reaches 20% or
more of the Company's net
worth as stated in its latest
financial statement.
(3)
The balance of
endorsements/guarantees
by the Company and its
subsidiaries for a single
enterprise reaches NT$10
million or more and the
aggregate amount of all
endorsements/guarantees
for, investment and
balance of loans to,
accounted by the equity
method, such enterprise
reaches 30% or more of
Company's net worth as
stated in its latest financial
statement.
(4)
The amount of new
endorsements/guarantees
made by the Company or
its subsidiaries reaches
NT$30 million or more,
and reaches 5% or more of
the Company's net worth
as stated in its latest
financial statement.
3.
The Company shall announce
and report on behalf of any
subsidiary thereof that is not a
1. The content of
the amendment to
the provisions and
the amended text
Based on the
Financial
Supervisory
Commission
(Letter No.
1080304826)
dated on March 7,
2019.

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public company of the Republic
of China any matters that such
subsidiary is required to
announce and report pursuant to
Subparagraph 3 of the preceding
Paragraph.
“Date of occurrence” in these
Procedures means the date of contract
signing, date of payment, dates of
Boards of Directors' resolutions, or
other date that can confirm the
counterparty and monetary amount of
the transaction, whichever date is
earlier.
public company of the Republic
of China any matters that such
subsidiary is required to
announce and report pursuant to
Subparagraph 3 of the preceding
Paragraph.
“Date of occurrence” in these
Procedures means the date of contract
signing, date of payment, dates of
boards of directors resolutions, or
other date that can confirm the
counterparty and monetary amount of
the transaction, whichever date is
earlier.
Atrticle 9. Notes to processing
endorsement/guarantee:
(I)
When going through the
endorsement/guarantee, the
Company shall evaluate the
endorsement/guarantee risks
with the evaluation records and
acquire collateral if necessary.
(II) The Company shall use the
corporate chop registered with
the MOEA as the dedicated
chop for
endorsements/guarantees. The
chop shall be kept in the
custody of a designated person
approved by the Board and may
be used to seal or issue
negotiable instruments only in
prescribed procedures. When
making a guarantee for a
foreign company, the Company
shall have the guarantee
agreement signed by the
Chairman or General Manager
authorized by the Board.
(III) The financial department shall
evaluate or identify loss
contingencies of the
endorsements/guarantees and
disclose information relevant to
the endorsements/guarantees as
appropriate in the financial
statement, and shall provide the
relevant information to a
certified public accountant for
adoption of necessary audit and
preparation of the audit report.
(IV) Where the entity for which the
endorsement/guarantee is made
later becomes non-conformity
with the requirements set forth
under Article 3 of these
Procedures, or if the amount of
endorsement/guarantee exceeds
the limit due to changes in the
basis of calculation, the
endorsement/guarantee made
for the business or entity or the
portion exceeding the limit shall
be cancelled upon expiration of
the contract or within a
timeframe specified in a plan
adopted by the Company. The
Article 9
Notes to processing
endorsement/guarantee:
(I)
When go through
endorsement/guarantee, the
Company shall evaluate the
endorsement/guarantee risks
with the evaluation records and
acquire collateral if necessary.
(II) The Company shall use the
corporate chop registered with
the MOEA as the dedicated
chop for
endorsements/guarantees. The
chop shall be kept in the
custody of a designated person
approved by the Board and may
be used to seal or issue
negotiable instruments only in
prescribed procedures. When
making a guarantee for a
foreign company, the Company
shall have the guarantee
agreement signed by the
Chairman or General Manager
authorized by the Board.
(III) The financial department shall
evaluate or identify loss
contingencies of the
endorsements/guarantees and
disclose information relevant to
the endorsements/guarantees as
appropriate in the financial
statement, and shall provide the
relevant information to a
certified public accountant for
adoption of necessary audit and
preparation of the audit report.
(IV) Where the entity for which the
endorsement/guarantee is made
later becomes non-conformity
with the requirements set forth
under Article 3 of these
Procedures, or if the amount of
endorsement/guarantee exceeds
the limit due to changes in the
basis of calculation, the
endorsement/guarantee made
for the business or entity or the
portion exceeding the limit shall
be cancelled upon expiration of
the contract or within a
timeframe specified in a plan
adopted by the Company. The
The amendment
shall be made as
per Guidelines for
Lending of
Capital,
Endorsements and
Guarantees by
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relevant improvement plan shall
also be submitted to the
Independent Directors of the
Audit Committee and reported
to the Board.
(V) Subsidiaries of the Company
shall also handle with
endorsement/guarantee matters
as per this provision, which
process shall be included in the
parent Company's related
operating procedures, and be
announced, declared and
reported as per Article 7. The
overseas subsidiaries shall
announce and declare matters
within seven days of the
occurrence of the event as par
Article 8-2.
(VI) Internal auditing system:
The internal auditors of the
Company shall regularly review
the legitimacy of the internal
control on derivatives trading,
and audit whether the trading
department conforms to the
procedures for derivative product
trading. They shall also draft the
audit report. If any major
violations are found, they shall
report to the Audit Committee in
writing.
(VII) Penalties:
If the managers and staff of the
Company violate these
Procedures in the process of
handling with
endorsement/guarantee, such
employees shall be subject to
penalties based on the
seriousness of the violation and
as per human resource
assessment regulations of the
Company.
(VIII) If the subsidiary’s net worth
below 50% of issued capital, the
Finance Department of the
Company shall regularly monitor
its financial situation and prepare
a corrective plan in writing if any
abnormalities are found.
In the case of a subsidiary with
shares having no par value or a
par value other than NT$10, for
the paid-in capital in the
calculation under Subparagraph 8
of the preceding Paragraph, the
sum of the share capital plus
paid-in capital in excess of par
shall be substituted.
relevant improvement plan shall
also be submitted to the
Independent Directors of the
Audit Committee and reported
to the Board.
(V) Subsidiaries of the Company
shall also handle with
endorsement/guarantee matters
as per this provision, which
process shall be included in the
parent Company's related
operating procedures, and be
announced and declared as per
Article 7.
(VI) Internal auditing system:
Internal auditors shall regularly
know legitimacy of operating
procedures for
endorsement/guarantee and
perform auditing on the
implementation of the
Procedures every quarter and
produce written auditing
reports. Should there be any
violation found, a written report
is needed to notify the Audit
Committee.
(VII) Penalties:
If the managers and staff of the
Company violate these
Procedures in the process of
handling with
endorsement/guarantee, such
employees shall be subject to
penalties based on the
seriousness of the violation and
as per human resource
assessment regulations of the
Company.
(VIII) If the subsidiary’s net worth
below 50% of issued capital,
the Finance Department of the
Company shall regularly
monitor its financial situation
and prepare a corrective plan in
writing if any abnormalities are
found.
In the case of a subsidiary with
shares having no par value or a
par value other than NT$10, for
the paid-in capital in the
calculation under subparagraph
8 of the preceding paragraph,
the sum of the share capital plus
paid-in capital in excess of par
shall be substituted.
Atrticle 10. The announcement of the
promulgation and amendment:
(I)
The Procedures thereof shall be
effective upon approval by the
Audit Committee first and then
by Board of Directors, subject
to the resolution of
Article 10 The announcement of the
promulgation and amendment:
(I)
The Procedures thereof shall be
effective upon approval by the
Audit Committee first and then
by Board of Directors, subject
to the resolution in the






1. The amendment
shall be made as
per Guidelines for
Lending of
Capital,
Endorsements and
Guarantees by

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reason
Shareholders' Meeting. The
same shall apply to any
amendments to the Procedures.
(II) The approval of the Audit
Committee as required in these
Procedures means the consent
of more than 50% of all Audit
Committee members. If the
approval of more than half of
all audit committee members as
required is not obtained, the
Procedures may be
implemented if approved by
more than two-thirds of all
directors, and the resolution of
the audit committee shall be
recorded in the minute books of
the Board of Directors.
(III) The terms of "all audit
committee members" and "all
directors" used herein shall be
counted as the actual number of
persons currently holding those
positions.
(IV) These Regulations were
formulated on July 2, 1997.
The first amendment was made
on July 28, 1999.
The second amendment was
made on June 12, 2003.
The third amendment was made
on June 14, 2006.
The fourth amendment was
made on June 13, 2008.
The fifth amendment was made
on June 16, 2009.
The sixth amendment was made
on June 22, 2010.
The seventh amendment was
made on. June 20, 2013.
The eighth amendment was
made on June 11, 2014.
The ninth amendment was
made on June 21, 2018.
(II)
(III)
(IV)
Shareholders' Meeting. If an
Independent Director objects to
or expresses reservations about
any matter, it shall be recorded
in the minutes of the board of
directors meeting. Any
objection by the Directors
which is recorded or in writing
shall be submitted to the
shareholders' meeting for
discussion. The same shall
apply to any amendments to the
Procedures.
The approval of the Audit
Committee as required in these
Procedures means the
agreement of more than 50% of
all Auditing Committee
members. If the approval of
more than half of all Audit
Committee members as
required is not obtained, the
Procedures may be
implemented if approved by
more than two-thirds of all
Directors, and the resolution of
the Audit Committee shall be
recorded in the minutes of the
Board of Directors' Meeting.
The terms of "all audit
committee members" and "all
directors" used herein shall be
counted as the actual number of
persons currently holding those
positions.
These Regulations were
formulated on July 2, 1997.
The first amendment was made
on. July 28, 1999.
The second amendment was
made on. June 12, 2003.
The third amendment was made
on. June 14, 2006.
The fourth amendment was
made on June 13, 2008.
The fifth amendment was made
on June. 16, 2009.
The sixth amendment was made
on June 22, 2010.
The seventh amendment was
made on June 20, 2013.
The eighth amendment was
made on June 11, 2014.
The ninth amendment was
made on June 21, 2018.
The tenth amendment was made
on June 21, 2019.
Public Companies.
2. Number and
date of adding and
revision

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Attachment 9

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Comparison Table for the Amendment to the Operating Procedures for Lending Funds to Other Parties

Other Parties
Articles before amendment Articles after amendment Revision
reason
Article 2
The aggregate amount of loans and the
maximum amount permitted to a single
borrower:
1.
Limitation of the entities to which the
Company may loan funds:
The Company may lend funds to other
parties for the purpose of operation,
except under the following
circumstances:
(1)
Where an inter-company or
inter-firm business transaction
calls for a loan arrangement.
(2)
Where an inter-company or
inter-firm short-term financing
facility is necessary. The term
"short-term" as used in the
preceding paragraph is a time
period of one year. Where the
Company's operating cycle
exceeds one year.
(3)
Each inter-company loan of
funds between foreign
companies in which the
Company holds, directly or
indirectly, 100% of the voting
shares shall not exceed 200% of
the net worth of the Company.
2.
Reasons and necessity for loan to
other parties:
Where funds are lent to a company or
business with business relationships
with the Company, such loans shall be
granted in accordance with Paragraph
3.2.1 of Article 2. Loans may be
granted due to short-term financing
need only under one of the following
circumstances:
(1)
A Subsidiary of the Company
of which the Company holds
50% or more of its shares
having a business need for
short-term financing; or
(2)
Where short-term financing is
required for a company or
business due to purchase of
materials or operating needs; or
(3)
Where the loan is approved by
the Auditing Committee and
Board of Directors of the
Company.
3.
Loan limits:
(1)
Aggregate amount of loans:
The accumulated total of loans
granted shall not the net worth
of the Company. Where funds
are lent to a company or
business with a short-term
financing need, the accumulated
amount of such loans shall not
Article 2
The aggregate amount of loans and the
maximum amount permitted to a single
borrower:
1.
Limitation of the entities to which the
company may loan funds:
The Company may lend funds to other
parties for the purpose of operation,
except under the following
circumstances:
(1)
Where an inter-company or
inter-firm business transaction
calls for a loan arrangement.
(2)
Where an inter-company or
inter-firm short-term financing
facility is necessary. The term
"short-term" as used in the
preceding paragraph is a time
period of one year. Where the
Company's operating cycle
exceeds one year.
(3)
Each inter-company loan of
funds between foreign
companies in which the
Company holds, directly or
indirectly, 100% of the voting
shares shall not exceed 200% of
the net worth of the Company.
2.
Reasons and necessity for loan to
other parties:
Where funds are lent to a company or
business with business relationships
with the Company, such loans shall be
granted in accordance with Paragraph
3.2.1 of Article 2. Loans may be
granted due to short-term financing
need only under one of the following
circumstances:
(1)
A Subsidiary of the Company of
which the Company holds 50%
or more of its shares having a
business need for short-term
financing; or
(2)
Where short-term financing is
required for a company or
business due to purchase of
materials or operating needs; or
(3)
Where the loan is approved by
the Auditing Committee and
Board of Directors of the
Company.
3.
Loan limits:
(1)
Aggregate amount of loans:
The accumulated total of loans
granted shall not the net worth of
the Company. Where funds are
lent to a company or business
with a short-term financing need,
the accumulated amount of such
loans shall not exceed 40% of the
1. The content of
the amendment
to the provisions
and the amended
text
Based on the
Financial
Supervisory
Commission
(Letter No.
1080304826)
dated on March
7, 2019.

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Articles before amendment Articles after amendment Revision
reason
exceed 40% of the net worth of
the Company.
(2)
The maximum amount
permitted to a single borrower:
Business transaction:
The amount of an individual
loan granted by the Company
to a company or company ltd.
that has business relationship
with the Company shall not
exceed the business
transaction amount between
the parties. The transaction
amount refers to the total
amount of goods purchased
or sold between the two
parties in the last year.
Loans with short-term
financial need:
Where funds are lent to a
company or business with
short-term financial need,
each individual loan shall not
exceed 40% of the net worth
of the Company.
(3)
Each inter-company loan of
funds between foreign
companies in which the
Company holds, directly or
indirectly, 100% of the voting
shares shall not exceed 200% of
the net worth of the Company.
After the Company adopts
IFRSs to draft the financial
reports, the "Net worth" as
referred to in the Procedures
shall be equity attributable to
owners of the parent company
in the balance sheet as per the
Regulations Governing the
Preparation of Financial
Reports by Securities Issuers.
net worth of the Company.
(2)
The maximum amount
permitted to a single borrower:
Business transaction part:
The amount of an individual
loan granted by the Company
to a company or business
with business relationship
with the Company shall not
exceed the business
transaction amount between
the parties. The transaction
amount refers to the total
amount of goods purchased
or sold between the two
parties in the last year.
between the parties
Loans with short-term
financial need:
Where funds are lent to a
company or business with
short-term financial need,
each individual loan shall not
exceed 40% of the net worth
of the Company.
(3)
Each inter-company loan of
funds between foreign
companies in which the
Company holds, directly or
indirectly, 100% of the voting
shares shall not exceed 200% of
the net worth of the Company.
After the Company adopts IFRSs to
draft the financial reports, the "Net
worth" as referred to in the Procedures
shall be equity attributable to owners of
the parent company in the balance sheet
as per the Regulations Governing the
Preparation of Financial Reports by
Securities Issuers.
The responsible person of the Company
who has violated the provisions of the
preceding Paragraph 3-1 and 3-2 shall
be liable, jointly and severally with the
borrower, for the repayment of the loan
at issue and for the damages, if any, to
the Company resulted therefrom.
Article 6
The funds shall only be allocated after
the Operating Procedures for Lending
Funds to Other Parties reported to the
Shareholders' Meeting for reference.
Article 6
The funds shall only be allocated after
the Operating Procedures for Lending
Funds to Other Parties is adopted by the
Auditing Committee and Board of
Directors and reported to the
Shareholders' Meetingfor reference.
Text amendment.
Article 9
These Operating Procedures shall be
announced and reported to the competent
authorities as per related regulations of
the competent authorities.
1.
The Company shall announce and
declare the previous month's loan
balances of its head office and
Subsidiaries by the 10th day of each
month.
2.
The Company whose loans of funds
reach one of the following levels
shall announce and report such event
Article 9
These Operating Procedures shall be
announced and reported to the competent
authorities as per related regulations of
the competent authorities.
1.
The Company shall announce and
declare the previous month's loan
balances of its head office and
Subsidiaries by the 10th day of each
month.
2.
The Company whose loans of funds
reach one of the following levels
shall announce and report such event
The content of
the amendment
to the provisions
and the amended
text
Based on the
Financial
Supervisory
Commission
(Letter No.
1080304826)
dated on March
7, 2019.

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Articles before amendment Articles after amendment Revision
reason
within two days commencing
immediately from the date of
occurrence:
(1)
The aggregate balance of loans
to others by the Company and
its subsidiaries reaches 20% or
more of the Company's net
worth as stated in its latest
financial statement.
(2)
The balance of loans by the
Company and its subsidiaries to
a single enterprise reaches 10%
or more of the Company's net
worth as stated in its latest
financial statement.
(3)
The amount of new loans of
funds by the Company or its
subsidiaries reaches NT$10
million or more, and reaches 2%
or more of the Company's net
worth as stated in its latest
financial statement.
3.
The Company shall announce and
report on behalf of any subsidiary
thereof that is not a public company
of the Republic of China any matters
that such subsidiary is required to
announce and report pursuant to
Subparagraph 3 of the preceding
Paragraph.
“Date of occurrence” in these
Procedures means the date of
contract signing, date of payment,
dates of Board of Directors'
resolutions, or other date that can
confirm the counterparty and
monetary amount of the transaction,
whicheverdateis earlier.
within two days commencing
immediately from the date of
occurrence:
(1)
The aggregate balance of loans
to others by the Company and
its subsidiaries reaches 20% or
more of the Company's net
worth as stated in its latest
financial statement.
(2)
The balance of loans by the
Company and its subsidiaries to
a single enterprise reaches 10%
or more of the Company's net
worth as stated in its latest
financial statement.
(3)
The amount of new loans of
funds by the Company or its
subsidiaries reaches NT$10
million or more, and reaches
2% or more of the Company's
net worth as stated in its latest
financial statement.
3.
The Company shall announce and
report on behalf of any subsidiary
thereof that is not a public company
of the Republic of China any matters
that such subsidiary is required to
announce and report pursuant to
subparagraph 3 of the preceding
paragraph.
“Date of occurrence” in these
Procedures means the date of
contract signing, date of payment,
dates of Board of Directors'
resolutions, or other date that can
confirm the counterparty and
monetary amount of the transaction,
whicheverdateis earlier.
Article 10
1. The Procedures thereof shall be
effective upon approval by the Audit
Committee first and then by Board of
Directors, subject to the resolution of
Shareholders' Meeting. The same shall
apply to any amendments to the
Procedures.
2. The approval of the Audit Committee
as required in these Procedures means
the agreement of more than half of all
Auditing Committee members. If the
approval of more than half of all audit
committee members as required is not
obtained, the Procedures may be
implemented if approved by more than
two-thirds of all directors, and the
resolution of the Audit Committee shall
be recorded in the minutes of the Board
of Directors' Meeting.
3. The terms of "all audit committee
members" and "all directors" used
herein shall be counted as the actual
number of persons currently holding
those positions.
4. These Regulations were formulated on
July 2, 1997.
The first amendment was made on July
Article 10
1. The Procedures thereof shall be
effective upon approval by the Audit
Committee first and then by Board of
Directors, subject to the ordinary
resolution in the shareholders' meeting.
If an Independent Director objects to
or expresses reservations about any
matter, it shall be recorded in the
minutes of the board of directors
meeting. Any objection by the
Directors which is recorded or in
writing shall be submitted to the
shareholders' meeting for discussion.
The same shall apply to any
amendments to the Procedures.
2. The approval of the Audit Committee
as required in these Procedures means
the agreement of more than 50% of all
Auditing Committee members. If the
approval of more than half of all audit
committee members as required is not
obtained, the Procedures may be
implemented if approved by more than
two-thirds of all directors, and the
resolution of the audit committee shall
be recorded in the minutes of the board
of directors meeting.
3. The terms of"all audit committee
1. The
amendment shall
be made as per
Guidelines for
Lending of
Capital,
Endorsements
and Guarantees
by Public
Companies.
2. Number and
date of adding
and revision.

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Articles before amendment Articles after amendment Revision
reason
28, 1999.
The second amendment was made on
June 21, 2002.
The third amendment was made on
June 12, 2003.
The fourth amendment was made on
June 16, 2009.
The fifth amendment was made on.
June 22, 2010.
The sixth amendment was made on.
June 20, 2013.
The seventh amendment was made on
June 11, 2014.
The eighth amendment was made on
June 21, 2018.
4. members" and "all directors" used
herein shall be counted as the actual
number of persons currently holding
those positions.
These Regulations were formulated on
July 2, 1997.
The first amendment was made on July
28, 1999.
The second amendment was made on.
June 21, 2002.
The third amendment was made on
June 12, 2003.
The fourth amendment was made on
June 16, 2009.
The fifth amendment was made on
June 22, 2010.
The sixth amendment was made on
June 20, 2013.
The seventh amendment was made on
June 11, 2014.
The eighth amendment was made on
June 21, 2018.
The ninth amendment was made on
June 21, 2019.

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Appendix

TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Articles of Association

Chapter 1 General Provisions

Atrticle 1. The Company shall be incorporated as a company limited by shares, under the Company Act of the
Republic of China. The name of the Company shall be TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION.
Atrticle 2. The scope of business of the Company shall be:
I.
Design, manufacture, sale and lease of electronic computers, computer system equipment, peripheral
equipment and terminal equipment.
II.
Electronic cash register and its surrounding design, manufacture, sale and leasing.
III. Design, manufacture and sale of computer system software and application software.
IV. The design, manufacture, processing and sale of computer products, including sound card, image
card and transmission card.
V.
Design, manufacture, sales and leasing of electronic and computer components.
VI. Design, manufacture, sale and import & export of computer automation equipment
VII. Design, manufacture and sale of printed circuit boards, circuit templates and their combinations.
VIII. Design, manufacture and sale of multiplex transmission equipment, data transmission equipment,
communication transmission equipment and network system.
IX. Manufacturing, processing and sales of communication equipment including data machine, radio
data communicator and digital radio telephone.
X.
Design, manufacture and sales of monitor, fluorescent tube and LCD.
XI. Design, manufacture and sales of electronic instruments & equipment and automation production
equipment.
XII. Manufacturing, processing and trading of various electrical and mechanical hardware components.
XIII. Agency services of price quotation, bidding and distribution for related products mentioned above
for domestic and foreign manufacturers (except futures).
XIV. Import and export business of related products mentioned above,
XV. Business not prohibited or restricted by law may be operated except for licensing business.
Article 2-1 The Company may act as a guarantor where necessary for the purpose of carrying out its business.
Atrticle 3. As the Company is a shareholder of limited liability in other companies, the total amount of its
investments is not subject to the investment limitation specified in Article 13 of the Company Act.
Atrticle 4. The Company shall have its registered head office in Taoyuan City and shall, where necessary and with a
resolution to do so by the Board of Directors, set up branch offices either within or outside the territory of
the Republic of China.
Atrticle 5. Deleted.
Chapter 2
Shares
Atrticle 6. The total registered capital stock of the Company shall be NT$6 billion, divided into 600 million shares
with a par value of NT$10 per share. Any unissued shares shall be issued, where necessary, upon the
approval of the Board.
Of NT$6 billion of the above total capital stock of the Company, NT$2 million with a par value of
NT$10, in a total of 20 million shares, shall be retained for the issuance of subscription right, special
stocks with stock option or corporate bond with subscription right, which may be issued in installments
from time to time upon the approval of the Board.
Atrticle 7. The share certificates of the Company shall be in registered form, and before they are issued, shall be
signed by or affixed with the seals of no less than three Directors of the Company, and be certified
pursuant to the law.
For the shares to be issued to the public by the Company, the issuing company may be exempted from
printing any share certificate for the shares issued.
Atrticle 8. The Company shall handle with stock affairs as per the Guidelines Governing Handling of Stock Affairs
by Public Stock Companies.
Atrticle 9. Deleted
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regular shareholders' meeting and suspended for a period of the convening date of a regular shareholders meeting, thirty days before the convening date of a special shareholders meeting, or within five days before the date on which dividends, bonus, or other benefits are scheduled to be paid by the Company. Atrticle 11. Deleted.

Chapter 3 Shareholders' Meetings

  • Atrticle 12. There are two types of shareholders' meetings: the general meetings and the temporary meetings. Regular meetings shall be convened at least once a year by the Board of Directors according to the law within six months after close of each fiscal year, unless otherwise approved by the competent authority with good reasons. Temporary meetings shall be convened whenever necessary according to the laws and regulations.

  • Atrticle 13. For the general meeting, a meeting notice shall be given to each shareholder no later than thirty days prior to the scheduled meeting date; For special meetings, a meeting notice shall be given to each shareholder no later than 15 days prior to the scheduled meeting date, specifying the time and place of the meeting and the reason for convening the meeting.

  • Atrticle 14. Shareholders' Meeting is convened and presided over by Chairman. In case the Chairman is on leave of absence or cannot exercise his powers and authority, his proxy shall be subject to Article 208 of the Company Act. As for the meeting convened by any other person having the convening right, he/she shall act as the Chairman of that meeting provided, however, that if there are 2 or more persons having the convening right, the Chairman of the meeting shall be elected from among themselves.

  • Atrticle 15. A shareholder who is unable to attend a Shareholders’ Meeting may appoint a proxy to attend and vote on his behalf pursuant to a letter of proxy produced by the Company stating the ambit of the proxy’s authority and with the seal of the Company. The use of proxies for attendance by shareholders shall be subject to the Rules Governing the Use of Proxies for Attendance at Shareholder Meetings of Public Companies promulgated by the competent authority, in addition to Article 177 of the Company Act.

  • Atrticle 16. The shareholders of the Company shall have one voting right for each share, unless otherwise regulated under Article 179 of the Company Act.

  • Atrticle 17. Unless otherwise provided by the Company Act, all resolutions of a shareholders meeting of the Company shall be passed, at a meeting attended by shareholders holding at least half of the issued capital stock, by more than half of the shareholders attending the meeting.

  • The voting power at a Shareholders' Meeting may be exercised by way of electronic means. Attendance via electronic means is deemed to be attendance in person. Related matters shall be handled subject to the relevant regulations.

  • Atrticle 18. Resolutions at a shareholders’ meeting shall be recorded in a meeting minute signed by or affixed with the personal seal of the Chairman. The minute book shall be distributed to all the shareholders of the Company within 20 days after the Shareholders’ Meeting. The minute book, the attendance list bearing the signatures of shareholders present at the meeting and the powers of attorney of the proxies shall be kept as per Article 183 of the Company Law.

The public announcement of the minute book mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall suffice.

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Chapter 4 Directors and Supervisors

  • Atrticle 19. There shall be 7 to 11 directors with a term of 3 years and shall be elected by the shareholders at the -

  • Shareholders' Meeting and shall be eligible for re election. Total shares held by all directors and supervisors shall be subject to related regulations of securities regulatory authority.

  • In accordance with Article 14-2 and Article 183 of Securities and Exchange Act, the Company shall appoint independent directors numbering not less than 2 persons and not less than one-fifth of the number of directors

  • The election of the independent directors shall be by the nomination system whereby the shareholders' -

  • meeting nominate and elect candidates from the candidates list as per Article 192 1 of the Company Act. The professional qualifications, restrictions on both shareholding and concurrent positions held determination of independence, method of nomination and other requirements with regard to the independent directors shall be set forth in accordance with the regulations of competent securities -

  • authority. Independent and non independent directors shall be elected at the same time but on separate ballots.

  • Atrticle 20. Elections of Independent Directors at the Company shall be conducted in accordance with the candidate -

  • nomination system and procedures set out in Article 192 1 of the Company Act. The implementation shall be subject to the Company Act, Securities and Exchange Act and other related laws and regulations. Total registered stocks held by all directors shall be subject to the Rules and Review Procedures for Director and Supervisor Share Ownership Ratios at Public Companies promulgated by the Securities and Futures Commission, Ministry of Finance.

  • Atrticle 21. When the number of directors falls short by one third of the total number prescribed in the Company’s articles of association, the Company shall call a special shareholders meeting within 60 days from the -

  • date of occurrence to hold a by election to fill the vacancies, so as to fulfill the unexposed term of office of the predecessor.

  • Atrticle 22. Expiry of the Director's term is less than re-election, may extend the duty to the re-election time.

  • Atrticle 23. The Directors shall constitute the Board of Directors and shall elect one Chairman (and one Vice Chairman, if necessary) of the Board from among themselves by a majority at a meeting attended by at least two-thirds of the Directors. The Chairman shall externally represent the Company.

  • Atrticle 24. The Company's operating policies and other important matters shall be adopted by the Board of Directors. The Company’s Board meetings shall be convened by the Chairman of the Board, who shall act as Chairperson of the meeting, provided, except for the first Board meeting of each term after an election of Directors as per Article 203 or the Company Act. A Board meeting may be convened on short notice in the event of emergency. The convening of the meetings mentioned in the preceding paragraph could give a notice to directors by fax or email.

  • Atrticle 25. Unless a higher approval threshold is required under the Company Act, a proposal to be resolved at the Company’s Board meeting shall be approved by consent of a majority of the Directors present at the meeting attended by a majority of all Directors. When a Director appoints another Director to attend a Board meeting due to his/her absence, he or she shall, each time, issue a written proxy. The proxy form shall state therein the scope of authority of such proxy with reference to the subject matters to be discussed as listed in the Board meeting notice. A Director's proxy as described herein may act as a proxy for only 1 other Director.

If the Board of Directors meeting is convened by video conference, attendance via video conference is deemed to be attendance in person.

  • Atrticle 26. The minute book of the Board of Directors' Meeting shall be signed by the Chairperson of the meeting and a copy distributed to each shareholder within 15 days after the conclusion of the meeting. The minute book, the attendance list bearing the signatures of shareholders present at the meeting and the powers of attorney of the proxies shall be kept at the Company.

  • Atrticle 27. The Company shall set up the Auditing Committee as per Article 14-4 of the Securities and Exchanges Act. The Audit Committee shall be composed of the entire number of independent directors and is responsible for supervisors' duties as per the Company Act, Securities and Exchange Act and other related laws and regulations.

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Chapter 5 Managers and employees

  • Atrticle 28. The Company may have one or more managerial personnel in accordance with the resolution of the Board of Directors. Appointment, discharge and the remuneration of the managerial personnel shall be decided in accordance with Article 29 of the Company Act.

  • Atrticle 29. General Managers shall handle business matters of the Company as per the resolutions of the Board of Directors.

Atrticle 30. Deleted.

Chapter 6 Accounting

  • Atrticle 31. The fiscal year of the Company shall begin on January 1, and end on December 31, of each year. The Board shall prepare the following reports after the end of each fiscal year, present the same first to the Supervisors for their inspection at least thirty days prior to the general meeting of the shareholders, and then to the shareholders at the general meeting of the shareholders for their ratifications: (I) Business report

  • (II) Financial statements

  • (III) Proposal for distribution of earnings to shareholders or recovery of prior year losses.

  • Atrticle 32. 6%-18% of profit of the current year distributable as employee bonus shall be distributed when the Company has profit. Employee bonus may be distributed in the form of shares or in cash. The distributed employees include qualified employees of subsidiaries of the Company. The bonus to directors shall not exceed 1% of profit of the current year distributable upon the adoption at the meeting of the Board of Directors. Proposals for the distribution of employee bonus and bonus to directors shall be submitted to the Shareholder’s Meeting. However, the Company’s accumulated losses shall have been covered before distributing employee bonus and bonus to directors by the aforementioned principles.

  • Article 32-1: Any profit made by the Company for each fiscal year shall, after deduction of tax, be applied firstly towards making up any losses incurred by the Company in the previous years, secondly retaining 10% of the balance thereof as legal capital reserve, then setting aside or release special capital reserve in accordance with regulations and adding previous unappropriated earnings for the Board of Directors to make surplus profit proposal for distribution for resolution by the Shareholders' Meeting to distribute dividend bonus to shareholders.

  • The Company is in a growing stage in its life cycle. In considering the future operation expansion, capital demands and impact of tax on the Company and shareholders, the capital bonus policy of the Company is formulated based on the Company's capital demands estimated in planned capital budget plan. The appropriation of net income is drafted by the Board of Directors and implemented upon the adoption at the Shareholders' Meeting. The allocation of capital bonus shall be based on the allocated capital bonus offered in the current year and shall not less than 10% of cash bonus distributed.

Chapter 7 Supplementary Provisions:

Atrticle 33. The Company's organization and major regulations shall be formulated by the Board of Directors separately. Atrticle 34. Any matter not provided for by this Articles of Association shall be subject to the Company Act and related regulations. Atrticle 35. The Articles of Association were agreed to and signed on December 10, 1991. The first amendment was made on August 6, 1992. The second amendment was made on July 15, 1993. The third amendment was made on September 29, 1995. The fourth amendment was made on December 12, 1995. The fifth amendment was made on February 5, 1996. The sixth amendment was made on October 30, 1996. The seventh amendment was made on July 19, 1997. The eight amendment was made on June 1, 1998. The ninth amendment was made on May 10, 2000. The tenth amendment was made on June 22, 2001.

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The eleventh amendment was made on June 21, 2002. The twelfth amendment was made on May 18, 2004. The thirteenth amendment was made on May 18, 2005. The fourteenth amendment was made on June 14, 2006. The fifthteenth amendment was made on June 13, 2007. The sixteenth amendment was made on June 13, 2008. The seventeenth amendment was made on June 16, 2009. The eighteenth amendment was made on June 22, 2010. The nineteenth amendment was made on June 17, 2011. The twentieth amendment was made on June 21, 2012. - The twenty first amendment was made on June 20, 2013. - The twenty second amendment was made on June 11, 2014. - The twenty third amendment was made on June 25, 2015. - The twenty fourth amendment was made on June 21, 2016. The twenty-fifth amendment was made on June 22, 2017. - The twenty sixth amendment was made on June 21, 2018.

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TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Operating Procedures for Acquisition or Disposal of Assets

Atrticle 1. Formulation Basis

In accordance with the provisions of Article 36-1 of the Securities and Exchange Act (hereinafter, the "Act") and Regulations Governing the Acquisition and Disposal of Assets by Public Companies (hereinafter, the "Regulations"), the Company hereby formulates these Procedures with a view to safeguarding the interests of the Company and all shareholders and meeting the requirements of information disclosure.

Atrticle 2. Scope of Assets

  • I. The scope of "assets" as used in the Procedures is described below:

  • (I) Investments in stocks, government bonds, corporate bonds, financial bonds, marketable securities representing interest in a fund, depositary receipts, call (put) warrants, beneficial interest securities, and asset-backed securities.

  • (II) Real property (including land, houses and buildings, investment property, rights to use land, and construction enterprise inventory) and equipment.

  • (III) Memberships.

  • (IV) Patents, copyrights, trademarks, franchise rights, and other intangible assets.

  • (V) Claims of financial institutions (including accounts receivable, bills purchased and discounted and loans, and receivables).

  • (VI) Derivative products.

  • (VII)Assets acquired or disposed of in connection with mergers, demergers, acquisitions, or transfer of shares in accordance with law.

  • (VIII) Other important assets.

  • II. "Derivatives" used herein refers to forward contracts, options contracts, futures contracts, leverage contracts, and swap contracts, and compound contracts combining the above products, whose value is derived from assets, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, indexes or other interests. The term -

  • "forward contracts" used herein does not include insurance contracts, performance contracts, after - -

  • sales service contracts, long term leasing contracts, or long term purchase (sales) agreements.

  • III. "Assets acquired or disposed through mergers, demergers, acquisitions, or transfer of shares in accordance with law" used herein refers to assets acquired or disposed through mergers, demergers, or acquisitions conducted under the Business Mergers and Acquisitions Act, Financial Holding Company Act, Financial Institution Merger Act and other acts, or to transfer of shares from another company through issuance of new shares of its own as the consideration therefor ("transfer of shares") under Article 156, paragraph 8 of the Company Act.

  • IV. "Subsidiaries" and "Related Party" used herein should mean the subsidiaries and related party as defined in the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers.

  • V. "Professional Appraiser" used herein should mean any appraisers/appraisal institutions specialized in real estate or other lawful appraisers/appraisal institutions of real estate and equipment.

  • VI. "Date of occurrence" used herein should mean, in principle, the contracting day, the payment day, the transaction day, the title transferring day, the day of a board resolution or other date when the transaction party and the transaction amount can be ascertained (whichever is earlier). However, for investments required to be approved by the competent authority, the Date of the Occurrence will be -

  • any of the above mentioned dates or the date on which the approval letter of the competent authority is received, whichever is earlier.

  • VII. Mainland China area investment: Refers to investments in the mainland China area approved by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs Investment Commission or conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations Governing Permission for Investment or Technical Cooperation in the Mainland Area.

Atrticle 3. Exclusion of related parties

Any Professional Appraiser and its appraisal personnel, certified public accountants, lawyers, or securities underwriters whom the Company has acquired appraisal reports and opinions from, shall not be a Related Party of the Company .

Atrticle 4. Scope and limit of investors

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  • I. The acquisition of marketable securities and real estate and equipment not for the operating purpose by the Company shall meet the following limitation requirements:

    • (I) The total amount of real estate or equipment not for operation shall not exceed 20% of total assets audited by CPA in the latest accounting term.

    • (II) The total amount of marketable securities shall not exceed the owners' rights and interests attributable to the Parent Company audited by the CPA in the latest accounting term.

    • (III) The amount of invested individual marketable securities shall not exceed 40% of the owners' rights and interests attributable to the Parent Company audited by the CPA in the latest accounting term.

  • II. The acquisition of marketable securities and real estate and equipment for non-operating purpose by the subsidiaries of the Company shall meet the following limitation requirements:

    • (I) Acquisition of real estate or equipment for non operating purpose is not allowed.

    • (II) The total amount of marketable securities shall not exceed the owners' rights and interests attributable to the Parent Company audited by the CPA in the latest accounting term.

    • (III) The amount of invested individual marketable securities shall not exceed 40% of the owners' rights and interests attributable to the Parent Company audited by the CPA in the latest accounting term.

  • Atrticle 5. Assessment and Operating Procedure for Acquiring or Disposing Assets

  • I. Acquisition or disposal of marketable securities

    • (I) Where the marketable securities acquired or disposed at the centralized market or the over-thecounter venue, the responsible unit shall handle with matters such as the acquisition or disposal of the reasons, the subject matter and the basis of reference for the acquisition and disposal, subject to the approval of the Company's internal control system.

    • (II) For securities not acquired or disposed of by the centralized trading market or the over-thecounter venue, the responsible unit shall draft the reasons for acquisition or disposal, the object of the subject, the counterpart, the transfer price, the payment terms, and the price reference based on the approval of the internal control system of the Company.

  • II. For acquiring or disposing other assets, the responsible unit shall handle with the matters such as reason, the object of the subject, the counterpart, the transfer price, the payment terms and the price reference, subject to the approval of the Company's internal control system.

  • III. The relevant operating procedures for acquisition or disposal of assets shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the internal control system of the Company.

  • IV. For acquisition or disposal of major assets, it shall be approved by the Audit Committee and submitted to the Board of Directors for resolution.

Atrticle 6. Decision-making procedures for the transaction:

  • I. The price determination method and reference to the asset acquisition or disposal: (I) Acquisition or disposal of marketable securities

    1. The price of securities traded on the centralized market or the over-the-counter venue shall be determined based on the market prices of the then marketable securities at the time of the transaction.

    2. For securities acquired or disposed at the centralized trading market or over the counter venue, the price should be determined by considering its net value per share, profitability, the future development potential and the price agreed with reference to the current transaction price.

  • (II) Acquisition or disposal of other assets shall be conducted in a price comparison, price negotiation, tender or other methods.

  • II. The units shall be authorized to make the acquisition or disposal of assets within the scope of authorization authorized by the competent authority:

  • (I) Acquisition or disposal of marketable securities: Except for the following circumstances, shall be approved by the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.

    1. The Audit Committee and the Board of Directors shall authorize the Chairman to decide the acquisition or disposal of the marketable securities for the operating purpose within NT$300 -

    million for long term investment purpose and then submit to the Audit Committee and Board of Directors for retroactive recognition.

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  2. Chainman is authorized to decide short-term marketable securities invested by short-term idle funds or the amount per transaction or daily amount less than NT$300 million. In case the amount exceeding NT$300 million, it shall be submitted to the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors for approval.
  • (II) Acquisition or disposal of other assets:

    1. If the Company acquires or disposes assets from its subsidiaries for the operating purpose, the Audit Committee and Board of Directors shall authorize the Chairman to decide within 10% of the total assets released in the latest financial statements. If the transaction count part is a related party and the transaction amount above NT$300 million, it shall be subject to the consent of the Audit Committee and Board of Directors.

    2. The Audit Committee and the Board of Directors shall authorize the Chairman to decide the -

    acquisition or disposal of other assets for non operating use within NT$300 million and then submit to the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors for retroactive recognition, and subject to the consent of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.

  • III. If the transaction of acquisition or disposal of assets is subject to the approval of the Audit Committee and Board of Directors as per the preceding paragraph and an independent director raises any objection or reservation to the matter, it shall be recorded in the minute book of the Board of Directors meeting.

Atrticle 7. Valuation reports on acquisition or disposal of real estate or equipment

In acquiring or disposing real property or equipment where the transaction amount reaches 20% of the Company's paid-in capital or NT$300 million, the Company, unless transacting with a government agency, engaging others to build on its own land, engaging others to build on rented land, or acquiring or disposing of business machinery and equipment, shall obtain an appraisal report prior to the Date of Occurrence from an expert appraiser and shall further comply with the following provisions:

  • I. Where due to special circumstances it is necessary to give a restrictive price or specified price as a reference basis for the transaction price, the transaction shall be submitted for approval in advance by the Board, and the same procedure shall be followed for any future changes to the terms and conditions of the transaction.

  • II. If the transaction price is over NT$1 billion, the Company should retain more than two professional appraisers to perform the appraisal.

  • III. Where any one of the following circumstances applies with respect to the professional appraiser's appraisal results, unless all the appraisal results for the assets to be acquired are higher than the transaction amount, or all the appraisal results for the assets to be disposed of are lower than the transaction amount, a certified public accountant shall be engaged to perform the appraisal in accordance with the provisions of Statement of Auditing Standards No. 20 published by the ROC Accounting Research and Development Foundation ("ARDF") and render a specific opinion regarding the reason for the discrepancy and the appropriateness of the transaction price:

  • (I) The discrepancy between the appraisal results and the transaction amount is 20% or more of the transaction amount.

  • (II) The discrepancy between the appraisal results of two or more professional appraisers is 10% or more of the transaction amount.

  • IV. No more than 3 months may elapse between the date of the appraisal report issued by a professional appraiser and the contract execution date; provided, where the publicly announced current value for the same period is used and not more than 6 months have elapsed, an opinion may still be issued by the original professional appraiser.

Atrticle 8. Related Party Transactions:

  • I. In acquiring or disposing real property from a related party, the Company shall ensure that the necessary resolutions are adopted, the reasonableness of the transaction terms is appraised, and other relevant matters are carried out in compliance with the following, including but without limitation, in case where the transaction amount is 10% or more of the aggregate assets of the Company, obtaining a valuation report issued by a professional valuation agency or a CPA opinion before the date such transaction takes place (provided that the calculation of the transaction amount shall be subject to paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Procedure) in addition to compliance with the procedures set forth above. When judging whether a trading counterparty is a related party, in addition to legal

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formalities, the de facto relationship shall also be considered.

  • II. Where the Company intends to acquire or dispose real property from a related party, or to acquire or dispose any property other than real property from a related party and the transaction amount of -

  • which is 20% or more of the paid in capital of the Company, or 10% or more of the aggregate amount of assets of the Company, or NT$ 300 million or more, except in trading of government bonds or bonds under repurchase and resale agreements, or subscription or redemption of domestic money market funds issued by securities investment trust companies, the following matters shall be submitted for approval firstly by the Audit Committee before resolution is further approved by the Board before any transaction agreement can be signed or any payment can be made:

  • (I) The purpose, necessity and anticipated benefits of acquisition or disposal of assets.

  • (II) The reason for choosing the related party as a trading counterparty.

  • (III) In respect of acquisition of real property, information regarding appraisal of the reasonableness of the proposed transaction terms in accordance with the Subparagraphs 3-4 of this Article.

  • (IV) The date and price of the related party originally acquired the real property, trading counterparty, and related party relationships. The original trading counterparty and that trading counterparty's relationship to the Company and the related party.

  • (V) Monthly cash flow forecasts for the year commencing from the anticipated month of signing of the contract, and evaluation of the necessity of the transaction and reasonableness of the funds utilization.

  • (VI) Appraisal report from professional appraisers or CPA's opinion obtained in accordance with regulations.

  • (VII)Restrictive conditions and other important stipulations of the transaction.

  • III. The calculation of transaction amounts in the preceding paragraph shall be conducted in accordance with Paragraph 2, Article 14, and the term "within the preceding year" shall be calculated as a basis of the date of occurrence of the current transaction. The same shall be submitted to the Audit Committee for approval in accordance with these Regulations and submitted to the Board of Directors for approval. For the acquisition or disposal of equipment between the Company and its subsidiaries for the operating purpose, the Audit Committee and Board of Directors shall authorize the Chairman to decide within an amount stipulated in Article 6, and then submit the latest Audit Committee for approval and Board of Directors for retroactive recognition. When the transaction of acquiring or disposing assets is submitted to the Audit Committee for approval and Board of Directors for deliberation in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Company shall take into full consideration each independent director's opinions and the independent director's opinions shall be taken into consideration. If an independent director objects to the board of directors to an objection or retain an opinion, it shall be recorded in the minutes of the board of directors meeting.

  • IV. Acquisition of real property from a related party shall be assessed in accordance with the following methods, which shall be evaluated in accordance with the following methods (for acquiring land and structures in the same one-step), the transaction costs shall be evaluated separately in accordance with any of the following methods:

  • (I) Based upon the related party's transaction price plus necessary interest on funding and the costs to be duly borne by the buyer. "Necessary interest on funding" is imputed as the weighted average interest rate on borrowing in the year the Company purchases the property; provided, it -

  • may not be higher than the maximum non financial industry lending rate announced by the competent local authority.

  • (II) Total loan value appraisal from a financial institution where the related party has previously created a mortgage on the property as security for a loan; provided, the actual cumulative amount loaned by the financial institution shall have been 70% or more of the financial institution's appraised loan value of the property and the period of the loan shall have been one year or more. However, this shall not apply where the financial institution is a related party of one of the trading counterparties.

  • V. Acquisition of real property from a related party, except for the appraisal of the real property costs in accordance with the preceding paragraph, shall be engaged in the appraisal of the real property acquisition costs and the specific opinion shall be submitted to the CPAs for review and the specific opinion.

  • VI. If the acquisition of real property from a related party is subject to the following circumstances, the

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Company shall not apply for the acquisition of real property from the related party, but shall still be required to comply with the provisions of Paragraph 2:

  • (I) The related party acquired the real property from inheritance or as a gift.

  • (II) The date of acquisition of the related party is over 5 years.

  • (III) The real property is acquired from the related party to the signing of a joint construction contract or the construction of the real property by the related party of the Company or the engaging party on the land lease.

  • VII. If the results of the appraisal conducted in accordance with Paragraph 4 of this Article are less than the transaction price, the Company shall comply with Paragraph 7, if the results of the appraisal are lower than the transaction price. However, where the following circumstances exist, objective evidence has been submitted and specific opinions on reasonableness have been obtained from a professional real estate appraiser and a CPA have been obtained, this restriction shall not apply:

  • (I) Where the related party acquired undeveloped land or leased land, it may submit a proof of compliance with one of the following conditions:

    1. Where undeveloped land is appraised in accordance with the means in the preceding Article, and structures according to the related party's construction cost plus reasonable construction profit are valued in excess of the actual transaction price. The "Reasonable construction profit" shall be deemed the average gross operating profit margin of the related party's construction division over the most recent 3 years or the gross profit margin for the construction industry for the most recent period as announced by the Ministry of Finance, whichever is lower.

    2. Completed transactions by unrelated parties within the preceding year involving other floors of the same property or neighboring or closely valued parcels of land, where the land area and transaction terms are similar after calculation of reasonable price discrepancies in floor or area land prices in accordance with standard property market practices.

    3. Completed leasing transactions by unrelated parties for other floors of the same property from within the preceding year, where the transaction terms are similar after calculation of reasonable price discrepancies among floors in accordance with standard property leasing market practices.

  • (II) Where the Company acquiring real estate from a related party provides evidence that the terms of the transaction are similar to the terms of transactions completed for the acquisition of neighboring or closely valued parcels of land of a similar size by unrelated parties within the preceding year.

  • (III) The transaction cases in the neighboring areas as the "close" or "adjacent" in the adjacent area -

  • stated in Paragraph (I) and (II) shall be the same as the same or a nearby view of the present value of the transaction. The area of the transaction is not less than 500 meters or the present value of the company's public announcements. The area of the "less than the area of the transaction is a similar area"; the area used for the transaction is a minimum of 50% of the area of the transaction. The term "within a year" shall be calculated as the base for the transaction.

  • VIII. Where the Company acquires real estate from a related party and the results of appraisals conducted in accordance with the Paragraph 4 and 7 of this Article are uniformly lower than the transaction price, the following steps shall be taken:

  • (I) The Company shall set aside special reserve in accordance with Article 41, Paragraph 1, Article 41 of the Securities and Exchange Act, and shall not distribute or increase capital allocation. And a special reserve shall be set aside for the amount of investment accounted for using equity method by the Company's investment in the equity method. The special reserve shall be set aside in proportion to the amount of shares that are listed in the securities and exchange act in proportion to the amount of shareholding. If the special reserve is set aside for special reserve, the asset acquired shall be recognized as a reduction in price or the disposition or the restoration of the original state or the original compensation or restoration of the original state of the asset, or the other evidence shall be used to determine that the special reserve can be used after obtaining the consent from the competent authority.

  • (II) The independent director of the Audit Committee shall be conducted in accordance with Article 218 of the Company Act.

  • (III) The status of the handling of the transaction shall be reported to the shareholders' meeting (I) and (II). The details of the transaction shall be disclosed in the Annual Report and the

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Prospectus of the parent company.
Atrticle 9. CPA's opinion on the acquisition or disposal of securities:
The Company and its Subsidiaries before the acquisition or disposal of securities, the latest financial
statements of the object company audited or reviewed by certified public accountant should be acquired
before Date of the Event for the assessment and reference of transaction price. If the transaction falls in one
of the following circumstances and the transaction price reaches 20% of the Company's paid-in capital or
NT$300 million, opinions in respect of a rational transaction price have to be sought before Date of the
Event from certified public accountant, if the certified public accountant’s opinion is under an professional
report which shall be handled in accordance with the provision of Auditing Standard No.20 promulgated
by Accounting Research and Development Foundation; However, this restriction does not apply to any
quoted prices in an active market or as otherwise provided by the Financial Supervisory Commission, the
Securities and Futures Commission.
III. Acquisition or disposal of marketable securities not listed on a stock exchange or traded on the over-
the-counter market.
IV. Acquisition or disposal of private placement securities.
Atrticle 10. Acquisition or disposal of membership card or intangible asset:
If the transaction amount of the membership or intangible asset transaction amount reaches 20% of the
Company's paid-in capital or NT$300 million, the CPA shall contact CPAs before the date of occurrence of
the event, and shall request CPAs to express an opinion on the reasonableness of the transaction price. The
CPA shall also comply with the provisions of the Accounting Standards Bulletin.20 of the Accounting
Standards for Research and Development Funds.
Article 10-1 The calculation of transaction amount:
The calculation of the transaction amounts referred to in the preceding four paragraphs shall be made in
accordance with Article 14-2 herein, and "within the preceding year" as used herein refers to the year
preceding the date of occurrence of the current transaction. Items that have been included in the evaluation
report issued by the professional appraiser or CPA's opinions need not be counted toward the transaction
amount.
Atrticle 11. Acquisition or disposal of assets through auction procedures of courts:
The Company or its Subsidiaries for acquisition or disposal of assets through auction procedures of courts,
the appraisal report or certified public accountant's opinion shall be replaced by documents issued by the
courts.
Atrticle 12. Trading of derivative products
I.
The Company and its subsidiaries engage in derivatives trading, the principles and guidelines,
operating procedures, risk management measures and regular evaluation methods, which shall be
conducted in accordance with the provisions of the “operating Procedures for Derivative Product
Transactions” formulated by the Company and its subsidiaries, respectively.
II.
The Company and its subsidiaries engage in derivatives trading, and the Board shall monitor and
manage the following principles:
(I)
The designated senior management shall always pay attention to the monitoring and control of
derivatives trading at all times.
(II) Regularly evaluate whether the performance of derivatives transactions meets the established
operating strategies and whether the risks are within the scope of the Company and its
subsidiaries.
III. The Company and its subsidiaries shall establish a log book for derivatives trading, and shall set up
a log book for the following matters.
(I)
The type, amount and date of approval of the derivatives trading.
(II) Assessment report on positions held in derivative transactions:
1. The positions held in the derivatives trading shall be assessed at least once a week.
2. Hedging transactions that need to be conducted in the course of business need shall be
assessed at least twice a month.
The above assessment report shall be submitted to senior executives authorized by the Board.

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  • (III) Regularly evaluate whether the performance of derivatives trading meets the established operating strategies and whether the risks are within the scope of the Company's permitted scope.

  • (IV) Periodically evaluate whether the risk management measures currently used are appropriate and faithfully implemented the procedures for engaging in derivatives trading.

  • (V) For major derivatives transactions, the Audit Committee shall be approved by the Audit Committee and submitted to the Board of Directors for resolution.

  • IV. Internal audit system:

Internal auditors shall regularly know legitimacy of operating procedures for endorsement/guarantee and perform auditing on the implementation of the Procedures every quarter and produce written auditing reports. Should there be any violation found, a written report is needed to notify the Audit Committee.

Atrticle 13. Business combination, demerger, acquisition, and transfer of shares

  • I. When the Company conducts merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares, an opinion shall be submitted to the CPAs, lawyers, or securities underwriter for the reasonableness of the exchange ratio, acquisition price, or distribution of cash or other property of the Company. The Audit Committee shall be submitted to the Audit Committee for approval and the Board meeting for discussion and passage. A subsidiary, which owns directly or indirectly owns 100% of the total issued shares or capital, shall be exempted from the merger and acquisition of the entire issued share capital of the subsidiary or the total number of issued shares or capital.

  • II. The Company shall, in the event of a merger, demerger, acquisition, or acquisition of a substantial part of the agreed content and related matters, make public information on the shareholders' meeting before the meeting. The Company shall also make a record of the shareholders' meeting to the shareholders' meeting for the purpose of the merger, demerger, or acquisition of the said proposal. However, this restriction shall not apply to any matter that may be approved by a shareholders' meeting to be resolved by a resolution of a shareholders' meeting. If the shareholders' meeting is unable to convene and vote on the number of shares held by the Company or the Company's shares, or the proposal is resolved by the shareholders' meeting, the cause of the meeting shall be stated immediately, and the date of the meeting shall be stated.

  • III. When the Company conducts merger, demerger, or acquisition, all participating companies shall convene a Board of Directors and a shareholder meeting on the day of the meeting to resolve the matter. The resolution shall be held on the same day of the meeting. The resolution shall be discussed and divided into the meeting, split, or acquisition of the relevant matters. A company participating in a transfer of shares shall call a Board of Directors meeting on the day of the transaction, unless another law provides otherwise or the competent authority has given special circumstances prior to the approval of the competent authority.

  • IV. The Company participating in a merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares may not arbitrarily alter the share exchange ratio or acquisition price unless under the below-listed circumstances, and shall stipulate the circumstances permitting alteration in the contract for the merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares.

  • V. The Company shall not arbitrarily alter the share exchange ratio or acquisition price, and shall stipulate the circumstances in the contract for the merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares:

  • (I) Cash capital increase, issuance of convertible corporate bonds, or the issuance of bonus shares, issuance of corporate bonds with warrants, preferred shares with warrants, stock warrants, or other equity based securities.

  • (II) An action, such as a disposal of major assets that affects the Company's financial operations.

  • (III) An event, such as a major disaster or major change in technology that affects shareholder equity or share price.

  • (IV) The adjustment of the Company's participating in the merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares by any party to buy back treasury stocks by law.

  • (V) Changes in the number of entities or companies participating in the merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares.

  • (VI) Other conditions that have been altered in the contract and have been disclosed public disclosures.

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  • VI. The contract for participation by the Company in a merger, demerger, acquisition, or of shares shall record the rights and obligations of the Company participating in the merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer of shares, and shall also record the following:

  • (I) Handling of breach.

  • (II) Principles for the handling of equity type securities previously issued or treasury stock previously bought back by any company that is extinguished in a merger or that is demerged.

  • (III) The amount of treasury stock participating companies are permitted according to laws to buy back after the record date of calculation of the share exchange ratio, and the principles for handling thereof.

  • (IV) The method of handling changes in the number of participating entities or companies.

  • (V) Expected execution progress and expected completion schedule.

  • (VI) When the plan is overdue, the scheduled date of convening a shareholders' meeting shall be convened according to the laws and regulations.

  • VII. After public disclosure of the information, if any company participating in the merger, demerger, acquisition, or share transfer intends further to carry out a merger, demerger, acquisition, or share transfer with another company, all of the participating companies shall carry out a new the procedures or legal actions that had originally been completed toward the merger, demerger, acquisition, or share transfer; except that where the number of participating companies is decreased and a participating company's shareholders meeting has adopted a resolution authorizing the Board to alter the limits of authority, such participating company may be exempted from calling another shareholders meeting to resolve on the matter anew.

  • VIII. For a company that participates in a merger, demerger, acquisition, or transfer of a company's shares is not a public company, the Company shall sign an agreement with its signature and seal in accordance with the provisions of Article 3, 4 and 7 of these Regulations.

Atrticle 14. Information Disclosure

  • I. If any of the following conditions relating to the Company’s acquisition or disposal of assets, the relevant information shall be announced and reported in the appropriate format as prescribed by regulations on related information declaration website within two days commencing immediately from the Date of occurrence of the Event:

  • (I) Acquisition or disposal of real property, or acquisition or disposal of any assets other than real property from a related party and the transaction amount of which is 20% or more of the paid-in capital of the Company, or 10% or more of the aggregate amount of assets of the Company, or NT$300 million or more from a related party; provided that it should not be applicable to trading of government bonds or bonds under repurchase and resale agreements, or subscription or redemption of domestic money market funds.

  • (II) Merger, spin off, acquisition, or transfer of shares.

  • (III) Losses from derivatives trading reaching the limits on aggregate losses or losses on individual contracts set out in the relevant procedures adopted by the Company.

  • (IV) Where the type of asset acquired or disposed is equipment for business use, the trading counterparty is not a Related Party, and the transaction amount is more than NT$500 million.

  • (V) Where land is acquired under an arrangement on engaging others to build on the Company's own land, engaging others to build on rented land, joint construction and allocation of housing units, joint construction and allocation of ownership percentages, or joint construction and separate sale, and the amount the Company expects to invest in the transaction is more than NT$500 million.

  • (VI) Where there is an asset transaction (other than any such transactions referred to in the preceding -

  • (I) (V) subparagraphs), a disposal of receivables to a financial institution, or an investment in -

  • mainland China area that reaches 20% or more of paid in capital or NT$300 million; provided, this shall not apply to the following circumstances: However, this shall not apply to the following circumstances:

    1. Trading of government bonds.
  • Trading of bonds under repurchase/resale agreements and the purchase or redemption of domestic money market funds issued by domestic securities and investment trust.

II. The amount of transactions above shall be calculated as follows:

  • (I) The amount of any individual transaction.

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  • (II) The cumulative transaction amount of acquisitions and disposals of the same type of underlying asset with the same trading counterparty within the preceding year.

  • (III) The cumulative transaction amount of real estate acquisitions and disposals (cumulative acquisitions and disposals, respectively) within the same development project within the preceding year.

  • (IV) The cumulative transaction amount of acquisitions and disposals (cumulative acquisitions and disposals, respectively) of the same security within the preceding year.

  • III. The term "within a one-year period" used in Paragraph 2 means the period between one year prior to the date of this transaction occurrence. Amount that has been announced as per these Procedures should be excluded.

  • IV. The Company shall compile monthly reports on the status of derivatives trading engaged in up to the end of the preceding month by itself and any subsidiaries that are not domestic public companies and enter the information in the prescribed format into the information reporting website designated by the competent authority by the 10th day of each month.

  • V. All items should be published again if any item required to be disclosed is missing or wrong during the original publication.

  • VI. The contracts, minute books, log books, appraisal reports, and opinions of certified public accounts, lawyers or securities underwriters in connection with the Company's acquisition or disposal of assets shall, except as otherwise specified by relevant laws, be kept in the Company for at least 5 years.

  • VII. Should any of the following conditions occur for the transactions that need to be reported as per laws, the Company needs to report the website designed by the competent authority within 2 days commencing immediately from the Date of occurrence of the Event.:

  • (I) Amendment, termination or cancellation of the original agreement.

  • (II) Merger, spin off, acquisition or share transfer not completed as scheduled in the agreement.

  • (III) Change to the originally publicly announced and reported information.

Atrticle 15. Acquisition or disposal of assets by subsidiaries

  • I. In case the assets acquired or disposed by its subsidiaries re-invested by the Company, it shall be handled as per these Procedures after the Amendments to Acquisition or Disposal of Assets adopted by the shareholders' meeting on June 22, 2017. The same shall be true when there is any amendment to these Procedures. The Company's "Procedures for Handling of Assets and Disposal of Assets" (except for the subsidiary company engaging in derivatives trading, which shall be implemented in accordance with the "Procedures for Engaging in Derivatives Trading") shall be abolished (provided that the Company shall be engaged in the handling procedures for derivatives trading).

  • II. If a subsidiary of the Company is not a public company and the acquired or disposed assets meet the information declaration standards, the Company shall also be announced, reported and documented. -

  • In the event of a subsidiary company's declaration standards, "20% of the Company's paid in capital -

  • or 10% of total assets" shall be based on the Company's paid in capital or total assets.

  • III. The subsidiary companies reinvested by the Company may vary from their respective corporate governance regulations due to their local laws and regulations. The duties of the Board of Directors, the Chairman, Independent Directors, the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee shall be held by the responsible unit of the respective subsidiary companies under the laws and regulations of the subsidiary.

  • Atrticle 16. Declaration and announcement to related parties for purchase of real property In case the Company acquires real estate from a related party, in addition to signing the contract, the Company shall also make a public announcement in accordance with the provisions of the "Guidelines for Handling Acquisition of Real Estate from a Related Party by Public Companies" promulgated by the competent authority and draft predicted monthly cash flow for one year since the signing of the contract. The Company shall also assess the necessity and anticipated benefit of the real property acquisition and submit to the next shareholders' meeting for approval and recognition by the Auditing Committee. The Company acquires real estate from a related party may not proceed with the transaction until the approval of the shareholders' meeting and the recognition of the Auditing Committee. If the transaction amount reaches the provision of Article 14 of these Procedures, the Company shall make a public announcement.

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Atrticle 17. Supplementary Provisions

  • I. The Company, when acquiring or disposing of assets reach the standard required to place a public announcement and report to the competent authority as stipulated in these Procedures, where its trading counterparties are actual related parties, it shall disclose in the notes section of financial statements the contests of the public announcement, and report to the Shareholders' Meeting.

  • II. If the managers and staff of the Company violate these Procedures and related regulations in the process of handling with acquisition and disposal of assets, such employees shall be subject to penalties based on the seriousness of the violation and as per human resource assessment regulations of the Company.

  • III. Any matters not stipulated herein shall be subject to related laws and related regulations of the Company. If the Company has amended the original interpretation of the procedures for acquisition or disposal of assets by the competent authority, the Company shall comply with the new letter of order.

  • IV. The Procedures thereof shall be effective upon approval by the Audit Committee first and then by Board of Directors, subject to the resolution of Shareholders' Meeting. The same shall apply to any amendments to the Procedures. When submitting the procedures for acquisition or disposal of assets to the Board for deliberation, the comments of each Independent Director shall be duly considered, and the objection or expression of reservations of such Independent Director shall be clearly recorded in the Board minute books.

  • V. The approval of the Audit Committee as required in these Procedures means the agreement of more than 50% of all Auditing Committee members. If the approval of more than 50% of all audit committee members as required is not obtained, the Procedures may be implemented if approved by more than two-thirds of all directors, and the resolution of the audit committee shall be recorded in the minutes of the board of directors meeting.

  • VI. The terms of "all audit committee members" and "all directors" used herein shall be counted as the actual number of persons currently holding those positions.

  • VII. 10% of the total assets shall be calculated by referring to the total assets of the stand-alone or individual financial statements for the most recent term prepared in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers.

  • VIII. These Operating Procedures were formulated on October 30, 1996. The first amendment was made on July 28, 1998. The second amendment was made on November 20, 1999. The third amendment was made on June 12, 2004. The fourth amendment was made on June 13, 2007. The fifth amendment was made on June 16, 2009. The sixth amendment was made on June 21, 2012. The seventh amendment was made on June 11, 2014. The eighth amendment was made on June 22, 2017. The ninth amendment was made on June 21, 2018.

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The Operating Procedure for Derivative Product Transactions

  • I. Purposes:

    • These Procedures are hereby formulated as a basis for managing various financial product transactions with a view to effectively managing the Company's receipts and payments, assets and liabilities, reducing risks brought by changes of foreign exchange, interests and other factors, and implementing information disclosure.
  • II. Basis:

  • (I) Regulations Governing the Acquisition and Disposal of Assets by Public Companies.

  • (II) The Procedures thereof are formulated by the Ministry of Finance and shall be effective upon approval by the Audit Committee first and then by Board of Directors, subject to the resolution of Shareholders' Meeting. The same shall apply to any amendments to the Procedures.

  • III. Scope of Application:

  • (I) "Derivatives" used herein refers to forward contracts, options contracts, futures, swaps and compound contracts combining the above products, whose value is derived from assets, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, indexes or other interests.

  • (II) The term "forward contracts" used herein does not include insurance contracts, performance contracts, after-sales service contracts, long-term leasing contracts, or long-term purchase (sales) agreements.

  • (III) The transactions in relation to bond margin trade shall be subject to these Procedures.

  • IV. Transaction Principles and Policies:

  • (I) Types of Transactions

    1. The Company upholds reasonable and lawful principles in transactions. The transacted financial derivative products include forward, option, future, interest or exchange rate swap and combination or hybrid contracts of the above products.

    2. The foreign exchange transactions used herein consists of hedging transactions (for non-transaction purpose) and specific-purpose transactions (for the transaction purpose) by the purposes of operation.

  • (II) Operating and hedging strategies

    • In dealing with financial derivative transactions, the Company shall select products that could mitigate the risks or reasonably locked risks. The selected products shall be based on those that could mitigate risks brought by the Company's business operation. In addition, the transaction count parts shall be banks that have daily business with the Company to prevent from credit risks. Before foreign exchange operation, it must be clearly defined as hedging or specific-purpose transactions, so as to serve as the basis for accounting.
  • (III) Separation of Powers and Responsibilities

    1. Trading operators: Refer to staff members in charge of executing derivative product transactions, collecting related information and regulations on financial derivative products, designing hedging strategies and risk disclosure, knowing the Company's policies and ideas and predicting the market trend and risks before the transactions. Excluding suggestions for forward, swap and principal protected financing deposit, providing position and hedging suggestions in line with the Company's operating strategy and implementing such strategy upon the approval of directors.

    2. Transaction Confirmation Personnel: responsible for confirming the correctness of the transaction with the bank and sending it back with a seal.

    3. Delivery Personnel: Responsible for the delivery of financial derivative transactions and regularly reviewing the cash flow status and ensuring the transaction contract to be delivered in a timely manner.

    4. Accountants: responsible for the relevant hedging transactions and profit & loss results being correctly and appropriately expressed in the financial statements as per related regulations (e.g. IASs).

  • (IV)Transaction amount

    1. Hedging transaction:

    2. The total amount of hedging transactions shall be capped at 120% of the existing and expected net assets and liabilities that are hedged at that time.

    3. Specific-purpose transactions:

    4. Based on the forecast of market changes, the Finance Department may formulate strategies as needed and only implement these strategies after submitting them to the Chairman for approval.

    5. Major derivatives transactions shall be approved by the Audit Committee in accordance with relevant provisions and submitted to the Board of Directors for resolution. At any time, the accumulated total balance of the above-mentioned hedging transactions and specific-purpose transactions shall not exceed the Company's current net value.

  • (V) Performance Assessment

    1. Hedging transaction:

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The target foreign exchange rate shall be set according to the size of the foreign currency position, and the performance evaluation report shall be provided weekly by the trader and submitted to the highest authorized supervisor for management reference. Traders should regularly revise the target exchange rate in line with market financial changes and, after approval by authorized supervisors, make every effort to achieve the target.

  1. Specific-purpose transactions:

The profits and losses of foreign exchange sites operating special-purpose transactions shall be assessed periodically, and the profit and loss statements shall be provided weekly by the traders and submitted to the highest authorized supervisor for assessment.

  • (VI)Set out upper limit of loss

For derivative product trading, the upper limit of loss is as follows:

  1. Individual contract: 20% of the contract amount. In case of special circumstances, it shall be approved by the Chairman of the Board.

  2. All contracts: 20% of the contract amount. In case of special circumstances, it shall be approved by the Chairman of the Board.

If the upper limit of transaction losses exceeds the above limits, the authorized person shall discuss with the Supreme Director of the Finance Department and submit a written report stating the measures to reduce the losses and their impact on the Company. Upon the approval of the Supreme Director of the Finance Department and the Chairman of the Board, the authorized person shall adopt the measures in accordance with the approved resolution and report them to the latest Board of Directors' Meeting.

  • V. Operating procedure:

  • (I) Authorization limits and levels

The Company's authorization for financial derivative product transactions is as follows:

Amount per transaction Applicant Reviewed by Approved by Approved by
Less than US$1 million
(inclusive)
Traders Managers Deputy General
Manager
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More than US$1 million Traders Managers Deputy General
Manager
General Manager

In order to enable the Company's authorization to be managed with the bank, if traders and confirmation staff have any changes, the Company shall inform the bank in a timely manner and ask the bank to continue to implement the existing agreements between the Company and the bank.

  • VI. Announcement and Reporting Procedures

  • (I) Reporting time:

The Company will report monthly consolidated operating situations.

  • (II) Reporting contents:

  • Include the relevant content of derivative product transactions conducted by the Company and its subsidiaries and

  • Specific-purpose transactions (for the purpose of transactions), including contract type, deposit paid, total amount of not charged off, net profit and loss assessed by market price, total amount of charged off transaction contract and realized profit and loss.

  • Hedging transaction (for non-transaction purpose), including the types of derivative products, the amount of assets or liabilities held, the amount of anticipated transactions, the amount of hedging gains and losses recognized and clearly deferred.

  • VII. Accounting method:

The Company accounts the derivative product transactions as per related provisions promulgated by the competent authority and Accounting Research and Development Foundation. In addition, relevant information is disclosed in the preparation of periodic financial statements (such as annual, semi-annual, quarterly and consolidated statements).

VIII. Internal control system:

  • (I) Risk management measure

  • Credit risk consideration: The principle of trading is to select financial institutions and future brokers who establish business relationship with the Company and provide professional information.

  • Consideration of market risk: Transactions are mainly conducted through the lawful and open market. 3. Consideration of liquidity: In order to ensure liquidity, the Company should select the financial institutions that have sufficient equipment, information and trading capacity and is able to trade in any market.

  • Operational considerations: Authorization quotas and procedures must be observed to avoid operational risks.

  • Legal risk: Contracts signed with financial institutions must be reviewed by legal personnel before

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they can be formally signed to avoid legal risk.

  6. Commodity risk: Traders and counterpart financial institutions should have complete and correct expertise in the amount of product traded, and require banks to disclose the risks adequately in order to avoid losses caused by misuse of financial commodities.
  • (II) Internal control:

    1. Traders engaged in derivative commodities and operators engaged in confirmation and delivery of derivative commodities shall not act concurrently with each other; their risk measurement, supervision and control shall be reported to the Board of Directors or Senior Managers who are not responsible for trading or partial decision-making by personnel of different departments.

    2. The derivative products held at the exchanges shall be assessed at least once a week, except for hedging transactions that need to be handled for business purposes at least twice a month. The assessment report shall be submitted to senior managers authorized by the Board of Directors.

    3. The Board of Directors shall indeed supervise and manage the work in accordance with the following principles:

      • (1) The designated senior managers should always pay attention to the supervision and control of the transaction risks of derivatives.

      • (2) Periodically assess whether the performance of derivatives trading conforms to the set business strategy and whether the risks are within the Company's allowable range.

    4. The senior executives authorized by the board of directors shall manage derivative product transactions in accordance with the following principles:

      • (1) The Company shall regularly assess whether current risk management procedure is appropriate and handled as per the Operating Procedures of the Company for Financial Derivative Product Transactions.

      • (2) If there is any abnormal situation in the market valuation report (if the holding part has exceeded the loss ceiling), the Company shall report to the board of directors and take necessary measures to deal with it.

  • IX. Internal auditing:

  • (I) Internal auditors shall regularly know legitimacy of operating procedures for derivative product trading, perform auditing on the implementation of the Operating Procedures for Derivative Product Transactions, analyze trading cycle and produce written auditing reports. Should there be any violation found, a written report is needed to notify the Audit Committee.

  • (II) The Company shall submit the audit report of the preceding paragraph and report with the implementation of the annual audit plan for internal audit operations before the end of February of the following year. The improvement of abnormal matters shall be declared in accordance with the regulations of the competent authorities no later than the end of May of the following year.

  • X.

  • Supplementary Provisions:

  • (I) The Procedures thereof shall be effective upon approval by the Audit Committee first and then by Board of Directors, subject to the resolution of Shareholders' Meeting. The same shall apply to any amendments to the Procedures.

  • (II) The approval of the Audit Committee as required in these Procedures means the agreement of more than 50% of all Auditing Committee members. If the approval of more than 50% of all audit committee members as required is not obtained, the Procedures may be implemented if approved by more than twothirds of all directors, and the resolution of the audit committee shall be recorded in the minutes of the board of directors meeting.

  • (III) The terms of "all audit committee members" and "all directors" used herein shall be counted as the actual number of persons currently holding those positions.

  • (IV) These operating Procedures were formulated on July 19, 1997. The first amendment was made on July 28, 1999. The second amendment was made on June 14, 2006. The third amendment was made on June 22, 2010. The fourth amendment was made on June 11, 2014. The fifth amendment was made on June 25, 2015. The sixth amendment was made on June 21, 2018.

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Regulations Governing the Management of Endorsement and Guarantee

Atrticle 1. Purposes:

  • In accordance with Article 36-1 of the Securities and Exchange Act and the Regulations Governing Loaning of Funds and Making of Endorsements/Guarantees by Public Companies, these Regulations are hereby formulated with a view safeguarding the rights of shareholders, improving the financial management of guarantees and endorsements of the Company and its subsidiaries and reducing operating risks.

Atrticle 2. Scope:

Endorsement and guarantees under these Regulations include the following items:

  • (I) Financing endorsements/guarantees, including:

  • Bill discount financing.

  • Endorsement or guarantee made to meet the financing needs of another company.

  • Issuance of a separate negotiable instrument to a non-financial enterprise as security to meet the financing needs of the Company itself.

  • (II) Customs duty endorsement/guarantee, meaning an endorsement or guarantee for the Company itself or another company with respect to customs duty matters.

  • (III) Other endorsements/guarantees, meaning endorsements or guarantees beyond the scope of the above two subparagraphs. Any creation by the Company of a pledge or mortgage on its chattel or real property as security for the loans of another company shall also comply with these Regulations.

Atrticle 3. Counterpart:

The Company may take endorsements/guarantees for the following companies:

  • (I) A company with which the Company does business.

  • (II) A company in which the Company directly and indirectly holds more than 50% of the voting shares. (III) A company that directly and indirectly holds more than 50% of the voting shares in the Company. Companies in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, 90% or more of the voting shares may make endorsements/guarantees for each other, and the amount of endorsements/guarantees may not exceed 10% of the net worth of the Company, provided that this restriction shall not apply to endorsements/guarantees made between companies in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, 100% of the voting shares. Where the Company fulfills its contractual obligations by providing mutual endorsements/guarantees for another company in the same industry or for joint builders for purposes of undertaking a construction project, or where all capital contributing shareholders make endorsements/guarantees for their jointly invested company in proportion to their shareholding percentages, or where companies in the same industry -

  • provide among themselves joint and several security for a performance guarantee of a sales contract for pre construction homes pursuant to the Consumer Protection Act for each other, such endorsements/guarantees may be made free of the restriction of the preceding two paragraphs.

Capital contribution referred to in the preceding paragraph shall mean capital contribution directly by the Company, or through a company in which the Company holds 100% of the voting shares.

Atrticle 4. Amount of endorsement/guarantee:

The matters, total reliable amount, ceiling and hierarchical authorization provided by the Company to other parties shall be subject to the following standards:

  • (I) The aggregate amount of endorsements/guarantees provided by the Company shall not exceed 200% of the net worth of the Company in the current period.

  • (II) The amount of endorsements/guarantees provided by the Company to a single company shall not exceed 200% of the net worth of the Company in the current period.

  • (III) For any subsidiary whose voting shares are 50% or more owned directly or indirectly by the Company, the amount of endorsements/guarantees provided by the Company to such subsidiary shall not exceed 200% of the net worth of the Company in the current period.

However, the total amount of endorsement/guarantee shall not exceed the transaction amount between the Company and the count part mentioned in preceding Article 3-1-1. The transaction amount refers to the total amount of goods purchased or sold between the two parties in the last year.

Companies in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, 100%, or more of the voting shares may make endorsements/guarantees for each other.

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  • (I) The amount of endorsements or guarantees may not exceed 200% of the net worth of the endorsement/guarantee company in the current period.

  • (II) The endorsements/guarantees for a single enterprise shall not exceed 200% of the net worth of the endorsement/guarantee company in the current period.

After the Company adopts IFRSs to draft the financial reports, the "Net worth" as referred to in the Procedures shall be equity attributable to owners of the parent company in the balance sheet as per the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers.

Atrticle 5. Approval authority:

  • (I) In case of endorsement/guarantee for any subsidiary whose voting shares are 50% or more owned directly or indirectly by the Company, the Chairman is authorized to execute and then reported to the most coming Board of Directors' Meeting for ratification.

  • (II) A pre determined limit may be delegated to the Chairperson shall not exceed 50% of endorsement/guarantee stated in the preceding paragraph and then such endorsement/guarantee shall be reported to the Auditing Committee and Board of Directors for ratification and related matters shall be reported to the Shareholders' Meeting for reference.

  • (III) Before the endorsement/guarantee for any subsidiary whose voting shares are 90% or more owned -

  • directly or indirectly by the Company as per Article 3 2 of the Company Act, it shall be reported to the Auditing Committee and the Board of Directors for adoption before executing, provided that this restriction shall not apply to endorsements/guarantees made between companies in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, 100% of the voting shares.

As the Company has established the position of independent director, when it makes

endorsements/guarantees for others, it shall take into full consideration the opinions of each independent director; independent directors' opinions specifically expressing assent or dissent and the reasons for dissent shall be included in the minute books of the Board of Directors' Meeting.

In case the above limits have to be exceeded to accommodate business needs, a resolution of the Board of Directors should be obtained and over half of all the directors should jointly endorse the potential loss that may be brought about by the excess of limits. The Board of Directors should also revise the Procedures and has it ratified at the Shareholders' Meeting. If the revised Procedures are not ratified at the Shareholders' Meeting, the Board of Directors should furnish a plan containing a timetable to withdraw the excess portion.

Atrticle 6. Procedure for endorsement and guarantee:

When dealing with endorsement/guarantee or cancellation, the department shall fill out the application form or cancellation form for endorsement/guarantee, specifying the company, object, type, reason and amount of the endorsement guarantee and the amount of the endorsement guarantee, including on the Company’s aggregate endorsement/guarantee amount and the amount of its endorsements/guarantees for any single entity, as well as on the aggregate endorsement/guarantee amount, and the amount of endorsements/guarantees for any single entity, that the Company and its subsidiaries as a whole are permitted to make. If the aggregate amount of endorsements/guarantees that is set as the ceiling for the Company and its subsidiaries as a whole reaches 50% or more of the net worth of the Company, an explanation of the necessity and reasonableness thereof shall be given at the Shareholders' Meeting. The following matters will be reviewed in details:

  1. The necessity and reasonableness of endorsements/guarantees.

  2. Credit status and risk assessment of the entity for which the endorsement/guarantee is made.

  3. The impact on the Company's business operations, financial condition, and shareholders' equity.

  4. Whether collateral must be obtained and appraisal of the value thereof.

The "Application for Endorsement Guarantee" applied for and evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of these Regulations after being approved by the competent and responsible officers and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. The financial and accounting department shall establish a record book for the endorsement guarantees that it handles. Detailed information on the guarantee items, the name of the endorsed guarantee enterprise, the results of risk assessment, the amount of the endorsed guarantee, and the content of the collateral obtained and the conditions and dates for the release of the endorsed guarantee liability shall be stated for reference.

Atrticle 7. Announcement and reporting standards:

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The standards for announcement and report to the competent authorities herein shall be subject to the provisions of the competent authorities.

Atrticle 8. Time limit and content of declaration:

The announcement to the competent authority, declaration time limit and contents shall be subject to related regulations of competent authority.

  1. The Company shall announce and report the previous month's loan balances of its head office and subsidiaries by the 10th day of each month.

  2. The Company whose balance of endorsements/guarantees reaches one of the following levels shall announce and report such event within two days commencing immediately from the date of occurrence:

  3. (1) The aggregate balance of endorsements/guarantees by the Company and its subsidiaries reaches 50% or more of the Company's net worth as stated in its latest financial statement.

  4. (2) The balance of endorsements/guarantees by the Company and its subsidiaries for a single enterprise reaches 20% or more of the Company's net worth as stated in its latest financial statement.

  5. (3) The balance of endorsements/guarantees by the Company and its subsidiaries for a single enterprise reaches NT$10 million or more and the aggregate amount of all -

  6. endorsements/guarantees for, investment of a long term nature in, and balance of loans to, such enterprise reaches 30% or more of Company's net worth as stated in its latest financial statement.

  7. (4) The amount of new endorsements/guarantees made by the Company or its subsidiaries reaches NT$30 million or more, and reaches 5% or more of the Company's net worth as stated in its latest financial statement.

  8. The Company shall announce and report on behalf of any subsidiary thereof that is not a public

  9. company of the Republic of China any matters that such subsidiary is required to announce and report pursuant to subparagraph 3 of the preceding paragraph.

“Date of occurrence” in these Procedures means the date of contract signing, date of payment, dates of boards of directors resolutions, or other date that can confirm the counterparty and monetary amount of the transaction, whichever date is earlier.

Atrticle 9. Notes to processing endorsement/guarantee:

  • (I) When going through endorsement/guarantee, the Company shall evaluate the endorsement/guarantee risks with the evaluation records and acquire collateral if necessary.

  • (II) The Company shall use the corporate chop registered with the MOEA as the dedicated chop for endorsements/guarantees. The chop shall be kept in the custody of a designated person approved by the Board and may be used to seal or issue negotiable instruments only in prescribed procedures. When making a guarantee for a foreign company, the Company shall have the guarantee agreement signed by the Chairman or General Manager authorized by the Board.

  • (III) The financial department shall evaluate or identify loss contingencies of the endorsements/guarantees and disclose information relevant to the endorsements/guarantees as appropriate in the financial statement, and shall provide the relevant information to a certified public accountant for adoption of necessary audit and preparation of the audit report.

  • (IV) Where the entity for which the endorsement/guarantee is made later becomes non conformity with the requirements set forth under Article 3 of these Procedures, or if the amount of endorsement/guarantee exceeds the limit due to changes in the basis of calculation, the endorsement/guarantee made for the business or entity or the portion exceeding the limit shall be cancelled upon expiration of the contract or within a timeframe specified in a plan adopted by the Company. The relevant improvement plan shall also be submitted to the Independent Directors of the Audit Committee and reported to the Board.

  • (V) Subsidiaries of the Company shall also handle with endorsement/guarantee matters as per this provision, which process shall be included in the parent Company's related operating procedures, and be announced, declared and reported as per Article 7. The overseas subsidiaries shall announce and declare matters within 7 days of the occurrence of the event as par Article 8(2).

  • (VI) Internal auditing system:

  • Internal auditors shall regularly know legitimacy of operating procedures for endorsement/guarantee and perform auditing on the implementation of the Procedures every quarter and produce written auditing reports. Should there be any violation found, a written report is needed to notify the Audit Committee.

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(VII)Penalties:

If the managers and staff of the Company violate these Procedures in the process of handling with endorsement/guarantee, such employees shall be subject to penalties based on the seriousness of the violation and as per human resource assessment regulations of the Company.

  • (VIII)If the subsidiary’s net worth below 50% of issued capital, the Finance Department of the Company shall regularly monitor its financial situation and prepare a corrective plan in writing if any abnormalities are found.

In the case of a subsidiary with shares having no par value or a par value other than NT$10, for the paid-in capital in the calculation under subparagraph 8 of the preceding paragraph, the sum of the share capital plus paid-in capital in excess of par shall be substituted.

Atrticle 10. The announcement of the promulgation and amendment:

  • (I) The Procedures thereof shall be effective upon approval by the Audit Committee first and then by Board of Directors, subject to the resolution of Shareholders' Meeting. The same shall apply to any amendments to the Procedures.

  • (II) The approval of the Audit Committee as required in these Procedures means the agreement of more than 50% of all Auditing Committee members. If the approval of more than 50% of all audit committee members as required is not obtained, the Procedures may be implemented if approved by more than two-thirds of all directors, and the resolution of the audit committee shall be recorded in the minutes of the board of directors meeting.

  • (III) The terms of "all audit committee members" and "all directors" used herein shall be counted as the actual number of persons currently holding those positions.

  • (IV) These Regulations were formulated by July 2, 1997. The first amendment was made on July 28, 1999. The second amendment was made on June 12, 2003. The third amendment was made on June 14, 2006. The fourth amendment was made on June 13, 2008. The fifth amendment was made on June 16, 2009. The sixth amendment was made on June 22, 2010. The seventh amendment was made on June 20, 2013. The eighth amendment was made on June 11, 2014. The ninth amendment was made on June 21, 2018.

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The Operating Procedures for Lending Funds to Other Parties

Atrticle 1.

These Operating Procedures are hereby formulated as par Article 36(1) of Guidelines for Lending of Capital, Endorsements and Guarantees by Public Companies.

Atrticle 2.

The aggregate amount of loans and the maximum amount permitted to a single borrower:

  1. Limitation of the entities to which the company may loan funds: The Company may lend funds to other parties for the purpose of operation, except under the following circumstances:

  2. (1) Where an inter-company or inter-firm business transaction calls for a loan arrangement.

  3. (2) Where an inter-company or inter-firm short-term financing facility is necessary. The term "shortterm" as used in the preceding paragraph is a time period of 1 year. Where the Company's operating cycle exceeds 1 year.

  4. (3) Each inter-company loan of funds between foreign companies in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, 100% of the voting shares shall not exceed 200% of the net worth of the Company.

  5. Reasons and necessity for loan to other parties:

  6. Where funds are lent to a company or business with business relationships with the Company, such loans shall be granted in accordance with Paragraph 3.2.1 of Article 2. Loans may be granted due to short-term financing need only under one of the following circumstances:

  7. (1) A Subsidiary of the Company of which the Company holds 50% or more of its shares having a business need for short-term financing; or

  8. (2) Where short-term financing is required for a company or business due to purchase of materials or operating needs; or

  9. (3) Where the loan is approved by the Auditing Committee and Board of Directors of the Company.

  10. Loan limits:

  11. (1) Aggregate amount of loans:

    • The accumulated total of loans granted shall not the net worth of the Company. Where funds are lent to a company or business with a short-term financing need, the accumulated amount of such loans shall not exceed 40% of the net worth of the Company.
  12. (2) The maximum amount permitted to a single borrower:  Business transaction part:

    • The amount of an individual loan granted by the Company to a company or business with business relationship with the Company shall not exceed the business transaction amount between the parties. The transaction amount refers to the total amount of goods purchased or sold between the two parties in the last year.

    • Loans with short-term financial need:

Where funds are lent to a company or business with short-term financial need, each individual loan shall not exceed 40% of the net worth of the Company.

  • (3) Each inter-company loan of funds between foreign companies in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, 100% of the voting shares shall not exceed 200% of the net worth of the Company.

  • After the Company adopts IFRSs to draft the financial reports, the "Net worth" as referred to in the Procedures shall be equity attributable to owners of the parent company in the balance sheet as per the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers.

Atrticle 3.

  1. Loan term:

  2. (1) The term of loan of funds, individual borrowers and financial limit shall be determined by the approval of the Audit Committee and the resolution of the Board of Directors. In principle, each loan is limited to 1 year, but if the business cycle of the Company is longer than 1 year, the business cycle shall prevail.

  3. (2) When the Company is engaged in capital lending with foreign companies that the Company holds directly or indirectly 100% of voting shares, the period of time shall be limited to 3 years and shall

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not be limited by the period specified in the second paragraph of the first paragraph of the preceding article.

  1. Methods for interest accrued:

  2. (1) The lending interest rate is adjusted according to the cost of financing funds borrowed by the Company from ordinary financial institutions in the same period of time.

  3. (2) For a foreign subsidiary company applicable to these Procedures, the method for capital loan and interest accrual shall be governed by the provisions of the local decree and shall not be restricted by the preceding paragraph.

Atrticle 4.

Procedure for loan issuance:

Application:

When a borrower applies for a loan from the Company, the operator shall first know the purpose of the fund, its business and financial situation, and preliminarily examine and verify those who meet the conditions for lending, and the operator shall put forward credit checking requirements. Credit checking:

  1. For new borrowers, the borrowers should provide basic and financial information for credit checking.

  2. In case of renewing borrower, in principle, the credit investigation shall be re-conducted at the time of the renewal. If it is a major or urgent case, it shall be handled at any time as necessary.

  3. If the borrower's financial situation is good and has annual financial statements signed by the accountant for financing, the investigation report within 1 year could be used and the accountant's report in the same period will be checked for reference.

  4. When conducting credit investigation on borrowers, the Company should also assess the impact of capital lending on the Company's operational risk, financial situation and shareholders' rights and interests.

  5. Credit investigation may be exempted if the borrower is a subsidiary of the Company that holding more than 50% of its voting shares, either directly or indirectly.

Loan review:

  1. After investigation by internal or external credit investigation companies, if the application is rejected, the operator shall notify the borrower as soon as possible after receiving the notice.

  2. When dealing with a loan case, the borrower shall provide appropriate collateral with an amount more than 1% of the Company's net value, and complete the procedures for setting the pledge or mortgage. The Company shall also evaluate the value of the collateral to ensure the rights of the Company's creditors. Only if the borrower holds more than 50% of the voting shares directly or indirectly in the subsidiaries of the Company, the collateral may be exempted. In the preceding paragraph, the Board of Directors may refer to the credit investigation report if the debtor provides a person or company with considerable capital and credit as guarantee instead of providing collateral. If the debtor takes the company as guarantor, the Company shall check whether the articles of association of the debtor provide guarantees.

  3. After the loan case has been submitted to the General Manager and the Chairman for approval, the loan between the Company and its subsidiaries shall be submitted to the Audit Committee for approval and resolution, and the Chairman shall be authorized to allocate or recycle the same loan within the amount approved by the Board of Directors and within a period not exceeding 1 year. For a certain amount referred to in the preceding paragraph, unless it conforms to the provisions of Article 2, Paragraph 3, the amount of capital loan and authorization granted by the Company to a single enterprise shall not exceed 10% of the net value of the Company's latest financial statements. As the Company has established the position of independent director, when it lends funds to others, it shall take into full consideration the opinions of each independent director; independent directors' opinions specifically expressing assent or dissent and the reasons for dissent shall be included in the minute books of the Board of Directors' Meeting.

  4. The operator shall notify the borrower as soon as possible and specify the terms of the company's lending, including quota, term, interest rate, collateral and guarantor. The borrower shall be requested to complete the contracting procedures within the time limit.

  5. Contracts and Setting of Guarantee Rights:

  6. In all lending cases, the Company shall enter into contract with the borrower to determine the

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  • conditions for lending. Credit collectors shall complete the procedures of insurance after the borrower and his joint guarantor sign the contract.

  • When handling a loan case, the same amount of guarantee promissory note shall be obtained, and the mortgage of movable or immovable property shall be set up if necessary. In the preceding paragraph, the board of directors may refer to the credit investigation report if the debtor provides a person or company with considerable capital and credit as guarantee instead of providing collateral. If the debtor takes the company as guarantor, the Company shall check whether the articles of association of the debtor provide guarantees.

Appropriation:

After the loan case has been approved and signed by the borrower, the guarantee pledge has been registered, the funds can be allocated according to the contract after completing all the procedures.

Atrticle 5.

Repayment:

  1. The cases with approved loans shall be uniformly kept by the Finance Department, and a detailed list of loans shall be drawn up according to the order of maturity dates. Information on the object, amount, date of approval of the board of directors, date of loan and evaluation of funds shall be recorded for reference, and reviewed level by level on the 10th day of each month.

  2. The Finance Department shall notify the borrower to pay the principal and interest in accordance with the contract 1 week before the maturity of the loan.

Atrticle 6.

The funds shall only be allocated after the Operating Procedures for Lending Funds to Other Parties reported to the Shareholders' Meeting for reference.

Atrticle 7.

Control of the procedures for lending loans:

  1. Control measures for borrowed funds:

  2. After the loan is granted, the financial, business and related credit status of the borrower and the guarantor should be regularly checked. If there are guarantees provided, the Company shall pay attention to changes to the guaranty value of the guarantor. If there are any significant changes, the Chairman of the Board of Directors should be notified immediately and the matters shall be handled appropriately according to the instructions. When dealing with capital loans and matters, the Company shall have a record book of loans lent to others, and state details of the borrower, amount, date of approval of the board of directors, date of capital loans and matters that should be carefully evaluated in accordance with these operating procedures for reference. The operators shall submit to the Chairman of the Board of Directors before the 5th of each month the funds borrowed to others last month.

  3. Procedures for handling overdue claims: When the borrower repays the loan before or after the maturity of the loan, the borrower shall first calculate the interest payable, and after the repayment of the principal and interests, the promissory note loan and other certificates may be cancelled and returned to the borrower or the borrower may go through the formalities of mortgage cancellation.

  4. When the loan matures, the borrower shall repay the principal and interest immediately. If there are overdue payment and the borrower needs to delay the repayment, a request shall be submitted in advance to the Audit Committee for approval. Each deferred repayment shall not exceed 3 months and shall be limited to one time. The Company may act on or claim against the collateral or guarantor provided by the borrower for any violation thereof according to laws.

  5. Assessment of capital loan and bad debt: The Company shall assess the loan and situation of funds, make adequate provision for bad debts, disclose relevant information in the financial report and provide relevant information to the accountant to carry out necessary checking procedures.

  6. Processing of excess loans and balances: If the credit and balance exceed the limit due to change of circumstances, an improvement plan shall be formulated and submitted to the Audit Committee.

  7. Internal auditing system:

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Internal auditors shall regularly know legitimacy of operating procedures for loans to other parties and perform auditing on the implementation of the Procedures every quarter and produce written auditing reports. Should there be any violation found, a written report is needed to notify the Audit Committee. The improvement shall be made as per planning.

  1. Penalties: If the managers and staff of the Company violate these Procedures in the process of handling with loan of funds, such employees shall be subject to penalties based on the seriousness of the violation and as per human resource assessment regulations of the Company.

Atrticle 8.

When fund-lending to other parties is contemplated by the Company's subsidiary, the Company should mandate the subsidiary to handle fund-lending in accordance with these Procedures.

Atrticle 9.

These Operating Procedures shall be announced and reported to the competent authorities as per related regulations of the competent authorities.

  1. The Company shall announce and declare the previous month's loan balances of its head office and Subsidiaries by the 10th day of each month.

  2. The Company whose loans of funds reach one of the following levels shall announce and report such event within 2 days commencing immediately from the date of occurrence:

  3. (1) The aggregate balance of loans to others by the Company and its subsidiaries reaches 20% or more of the Company's net worth as stated in its latest financial statement.

  4. (2) The balance of loans by the Company and its subsidiaries to a single enterprise reaches 10% or more of the Company's net worth as stated in its latest financial statement.

  5. (3) The amount of new loans of funds by the Company or its subsidiaries reaches NT$10 million or more, and reaches 2% or more of the Company's net worth as stated in its latest financial statement.

  6. The Company shall announce and report on behalf of any subsidiary thereof that is not a public company of the Republic of China any matters that such subsidiary is required to announce and report pursuant to subparagraph 3 of the preceding paragraph.

  7. “Date of occurrence” in these Procedures means the date of contract signing, date of payment, dates of boards of directors resolutions, or other date that can confirm the counterparty and monetary amount of the transaction, whichever date is earlier.

Atrticle 10.

  1. The Procedures thereof shall be effective upon approval by the Audit Committee first and then by Board of Directors, subject to the resolution of Shareholders' Meeting. The same shall apply to any amendments to the Procedures.

  2. The approval of the Audit Committee as required in these Procedures means the agreement of more than 50% of all Auditing Committee members. If the approval of more than 50% of all audit committee members as required is not obtained, the Procedures may be implemented if -

approved by more than two thirds of all directors, and the resolution of the audit committee shall be recorded in the minutes of the board of directors meeting.

  1. The terms of "all audit committee members" and "all directors" used herein shall be counted as the actual number of persons currently holding those positions.

  2. These Regulations were formulated on July 2, 1997. The first amendment was made on July 28, 1999. The second amendment was made on June 21, 2002. The third amendment was made on June 12, 2003. The fourth amendment was made on June 16, 2009. The fifth amendment was made on June 22, 2010. The sixth amendment was made on June 20, 2013. The seventh amendment was made on June 11, 2014. The eighth amendment was made on June 21, 2018.

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Rules and Procedures for Shareholders' Meeting

  • I. The Shareholders' Meeting of the Company shall be proceeded in accordance with the rules set herein

  • II. Shareholders and their proxies shall attend Shareholders' Meetings based on attendance cards. The number of shares in attendance shall be calculated according to the shares indicated by the submitted sign-in cards.

  • III. When the attending shareholders represent a majority (over 50%) of the total number of issued shares, the Chairman may call the meeting to order. If the number of shares represented by the shareholders present at the Meeting has not yet constituted the quorum at the time scheduled for the Meeting, the Chairman may postpone the time for the Meeting, limited to 2 times (the first is 20 minutes and the second is 10 minutes). If after 2 postponements, the number of shares represented by the attending shareholders has constituted more than onethird of all shares in issue present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote, a tentative resolution may be passed if the number of shares represented by the attending shareholders has already constituted more than an aggregate of one-half of all shares in issue in accordance with Article 175 of the Company Act. "

  • IV. If the Shareholders' Meeting is convened by the Board of Directors, its agenda shall be set by the Board of Directors, and the Chairman of the Shareholders' Meeting shall be the Chairman of Board of Directors. Unless otherwise approved in the general meeting, the general meeting shall proceed in accordance with the agenda. The preceding paragraph applies to circumstances where the general meeting is convened by any person, other than the Board of Directors, entitled to convene such general meeting.

  • V. However, in the event that the Chairman adjourns the Meeting in violation of these Rules and Procedures, the shareholders may designate, by a majority (over 50%) of votes represented by shareholders attending the Meeting, one person as Chairman to continue the Meeting. The shareholders cannot designate any other person as Chairman and continue the Meeting in the same or other places after the Meeting is adjourned.

  • VI. Before speaking, an attending shareholder must specify on a speaker's slip his/her attendance card number and account name. The order in which shareholders speak will be set by the Chairman.

  • A shareholder in attendance who has submitted a speaker's slip but does not actually speak shall be deemed to have not spoken. When the content of the speech does not correspond to the subject given on the speaker's slip, the spoken content shall prevail.

  • VII. When discussing a proposal, it should be discussed in the order of the scheduled agenda. In case the speech of any shareholder violates the above provision or exceeds the scope of the discussion item, the Chairman may stop the speech of such shareholder.

  • VIII. Shareholders shall not speak for more than 5 minutes at a time, but may extend the time by 3 minutes with the permission of the Chairman. The Chairman may stop the speech if the time exceeds the limit. On the same motion, each speaker may not speak more than twice.

  • IX. The Chairman may announce the end of discussion and submit an item for a vote if the Chairman deems that the agenda item is ready for voting.

  • X. Except otherwise specified in relevant laws or in the Company Act, a resolution shall be adopted by a majority (over 50%) of the votes represented by the shareholders present at the Meeting. A proposal being put to vote at a Board meeting shall be deemed approved in the absence of objection voiced by the attending Directors upon consultation by the Chairman and effective as if approved by a vote.

In case of objections, the Chairman shall record the method and the number or proportion of the votes in the minute book.

When there is an amendment or an alternative to a proposal, the Chairman shall present the amended or alternative proposal together with the original proposal and decide the order in which they will be put to a vote. If any one of the motion has been adopted, the others shall be deemed vetoed and no further voting is necessary.

  • XI. A shareholder may appoint a proxy to attend the Shareholders' Meeting due to his/her absence, he or she shall, each time, issue a written proxy produced by the Company. The proxy shall state therein the scope of authority of such proxy as per the Company Act and Rules Governing the Use of Proxies for Attendance at the Shareholders' Meetings of Public Companies. Except in the case of a trust enterprise or securities proxy

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organization approved by the competent securities authority, the proxy voting rights of a person serving as a proxy for two or more Members may not exceed 3% of total issued shares voting rights. If it does exceed 3%, the excess portion shall not be counted. A Member may only appoint one proxy to represent him and vote on his behalf. The power of attorney shall be delivered to the share office of the Company 5 days before the Shareholders' Meeting. Where multiple power of attorney are received by the Company whichever received first shall prevail. However, an explicit written statement revoking the previous power of attorney is not subject to the limit. After the power of attorney of a proxy arrived at the Company, in case the shareholder issuing the said proxy intends to attend the Shareholders' Meeting in person, a proxy rescission notice shall be filed with the Company at least 1 day prior to the date of the shareholders' meeting as scheduled in the Shareholders' Meeting notice so as to rescind the proxy at issue, otherwise, the voting power exercised by the authorized proxy at the meeting shall prevail.

  • XII. If an emergency occurs in the course of a meeting which is enough to affect the safety of the participants in the meeting, the Chairman shall announce the adjournment or suspension of the meeting, evacuate the participants, and resume the meeting after the emergency is lifted.

  • XIII. Any matter not provided for by this Articles of Association shall be subject to the Company Act and related regulations.

  • XIV. These Regulations thereof shall be effective upon approval of the Shareholders' Meeting. The same shall apply to any amendments to these Regulations.

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Information on Employees’ Compensation and Remuneration of Directors

  • I. The percentages or ranges of employees’ compensation and remuneration of directors according to the Company's Articles of Incorporation.

  • In accordance with the Company’s Articles of Incorporation regarding employees’ compensation and remuneration of directors, where the Company made a profit in a fiscal year, the Company shall accrue employees' compensation at rates of no less than 6% and no higher than 18% of net profit after income tax, which should be resolved by the board of directors to be distributed in the form of cash or shares, and includes certain qualified employees of subsidiaries. The Company shall accrue remuneration of directors at rates no higher than 1% of net profit after income tax.

  • Employees' compensation and remuneration of directors should be reported in the shareholders' meeting. However, in the case of accumulated deficits, the Company shall first use the profit to offset deficits, before distributing the remaining profit as employees' compensation and remuneration of directors at the aforementioned rates.

  • II. The status of employees’ compensation and remuneration of directors approved by the Board of Directors.

of Directors.
Units: NT$
Allocation Items Allocation Amount
Approved by the Board
of Directors (A)
Estimated Amount in
year of recognition of
expenses (B)
Difference
(A-B)
Difference
reasons
and
treatment
Employees’
compensation
590,341,864 590,341,864 0 None
Remuneration of
directors
42,000,000 42,000,000 0

The effect of Issuance of Bonus Shares on the Company's operating performance, earnings per share, and return on equity

Not applicable, since there were no stock dividend allocated in the year.

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Status of Individual and all Directors' Shareholdings Recorded in the

Shareholders' Directory

  • I. According to the regulation, all directors of the Company shall hold not less than 16,819,388 shares, and as of the ex-dividend date, April 23, 2019, all directors held 26,608,976 shares.

  • II. As the Company has established the audit committee, the legal shareholding requirements for supervisors do not apply.

  • III. Status of individual and all directors' shareholding: (the base date is the ex-dividend date: April

23, 2019)

23, 2019)
Title Name Date of
Appointment
Tenure Shares held
at the time
of election
Shares held
on the ex-
dividend date
Chairman Wang,Chiang-Chuang June 21,2018 3 Years 8,362,532 7,022,532
Vice Chairman Hu,Ching-Hsiu June 21,2018 3 Years 7,023,713 6,673,713
Directors Hsu,Tsao-Kuei June 21,2018 3 Years 8,982,056 8,982,056
Director Yun Jieh Investment Co., Ltd.
Legal Representative: Wang,
Cheng-Ding
June 21, 2018 3 Years 630,000 630,000
Director Winon Investment Limited
Legal Representative: Wu,
Chew-Wun
June 21, 2018 3 Years 630,000 630,000
Director Ching Shan International
Investment Co., Ltd.
Legal Representative: Tsai
Mao Tang
June 21, 2018 3 Years 1,915,329 1,915,329
Director Chuan-Sheng Investment Co.,
Ltd.
Legal Representative: Chang,
Mei-Lan
June 21, 2018 3 Years 753,080 753,080
Independent
Director
Wu, Hong-Cherng June 21, 2018 3 Years 0 0
Independent
Director
Wu, Yeong-Cheng June 21, 2018 3 Years 0 0
Independent
Director
Tai, Hsing-Cheng June 21, 2018 3 Years 2,266 2,266
Total Number of Directors 28,298,976 26,608,976

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