Taiwan Stock Exchange - Rules & Regulations Directory

Amendments

Title:
Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Procedures for Verification and Disclosure of Material Information of Listed Companies(2007.03.12)

Article 3
A listed company to which any circumstance set forth in any subparagraph of Paragraph 1 of the preceding article applies, or that discovers mass media reportage of any circumstance set forth in any subparagraph of the preceding article or any reportage that diverges from facts shall handle those of such cases conforming to the circumstances set forth in Paragraph 1 of Article 2 of this Corporation's Procedures for Press Conferences Concerning Material Information of Listed Companies in compliance with Article 5 of said Procedures, and shall handle all other such cases by inputting the content or explanations of the information into the Internet information reporting system designated by this Corporation before the commencement of trading hours of the trading day next following the date of occurrence of the event (date of agreement, date of contract signing, date of payment, date of execution of a trading order, date of title transfer, date of resolution of the board of directors or a committee established thereby, or other date that can confirm the counterpart and monetary amount of the transaction, whichever date is earlier; however, for any investment requiring the approval of the Competent Authority, the earliest of the above dates or the date of receipt of approval by the Competent Authority shall apply) or date of the media reportage; provided, where a press release is issued prior thereto, it shall be input at the time of issuance of the press release. Where foreign laws or regulations impose time constraints concerning material information that a listed company is required to report on behalf of a foreign enterprise under these Procedures, the listed company may accommodate the time constraints on the foreign enterprise and make the disclosure simultaneously therewith.
If a listed company that issues securities overseas, during the duration of those securities, experiences any event in the subparagraphs of paragraph 1 of the preceding article, it shall simultaneously input the content or explanations of the information in English into the Internet information reporting system designated by this Corporation; or, if it experiences any material event that requires immediate reporting under the laws or regulations or securities exchange rules of the country of listing, it shall simultaneously input such information into the Internet information reporting system designated by this Corporation, and if it receives any written enquiry from the securities regulatory agency or securities exchange of the country of listing with respect to any matter that has a material effect on shareholder equity or the price of securities, it shall immediately forward a copy of the content of the written enquiry and any response thereto to this Corporation.
Where a listed company convenes on its own initiative or is invited to attend an investor/press conference, if it is necessary for the investor/press conference to be held during the trading hours of the centralized stock exchange, this shall be reported to this Corporation in advance for approval, and before the investor/press conference is convened, the listed company shall, during non-trading hours of the centralized stock exchange, enter the complete financial and business information on the Internet information reporting system designated by this Corporation, and the financial and business information disclosed in the investor/press conference may not go beyond the content of the aforesaid information already reported.

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