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Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Rules Governing Review of Securities Listings(2013.12.30) |
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Article 4
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Where an issuing company applying for the listing of its stock meets the criteria listed below, the TWSE will agree to list its stock:
- Duration of corporate existence: It has been incorporated and registered under the Company Act for at least 3 years at the time of the application for listing; provided, this restriction shall not apply to public (state-owned) enterprises or to privatized public enterprises.
- Amount of capital stock: At the time it applies for listing, its paid-in capital is NT$600 million or more and the number of shares of its publicly offered and issued common stock is 30 million shares or more.
- Profitability: The net income before tax in its financial reports meets either of the following criteria, and it does not have any accumulated deficit in the final accounting for the most recent fiscal year:
- The net income before tax for the most recent 2 fiscal years represents 6 percent or greater of the share capital stated on the financial report for the annual final accounts.
- The net income before tax for the most recent 2 fiscal years represent 6 percent or greater of the amount of paid-in capital in its final accounts and the profitability for the most recent fiscal year is greater than that for the immediately preceding fiscal year; or
- The net income before tax for the most recent 5 years represents 3 percent or greater of the share capital stated on the financial report for the annual final accounts.
- Dispersion of shareholdings: The number of registered shareholders is 1,000 or more. Excluding company insiders and any juristic persons in which such insiders hold more than 50 percent of the shares, the number of registered shareholders is at least 500, and the total number of shares they hold is 20 percent or greater of the total issued shares, or at least 10 million.
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Article 5
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Where the central authority in charge of the enterprise concerned has issued an unequivocal opinion certifying that the issuing company applying for the listing of its stock is a technology-based enterprise and the said issuing company meets the criteria listed below, the TWSE will agree to list its stock:
- At the time it applies for listing, its paid-in capital is NT$300 million or more and the number of shares of its publicly offered and issued common stock is 20 million shares or more.
- It has successfully developed a product or a technology with market potential, and the company has obtained an appraisal opinion from the central authority in charge of the enterprise concerned.
- It is recommended in writing by the securities underwriter.
- Its net worth in both its most recent financial report and in its financial report for the most recent fiscal year represents two-thirds or greater of the share capital stated on the financial report.
- The number of registered shareholders is 1,000 or more. Excluding company insiders and any juristic persons in which such insiders hold more than 50 percent of the shares, the number of registered shareholders is at least 500.
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