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Relevant Laws

Title:Regulations Governing Content and Compliance Requirements for Shareholders' Meeting Agenda Handbooks of Public Companies (2023.12.08)
Article 5     Thirty days before a company convenes a regular shareholders’ meeting or 15 days before a special shareholders’ meeting, the company shall prepare electronic files of the meeting announcement, proxy form, explanatory materials relating to proposals for ratification, matters for deliberation, election or dismissal of directors or supervisors, and other matters on the shareholders’ meeting agenda, and upload them to the information disclosure website specified by the FSC.
    Where voting powers at a shareholders' meeting are to be exercised in writing, a print version of the materials referred to in the preceding paragraph and a printed ballot shall also be sent to the shareholders.
Article 6     When a company will convene a shareholders’ meeting, it shall, 15 days before the scheduled date of the shareholders’ meeting, prepare the shareholders’ meeting agenda handbook and supplemental materials and make them available for the shareholders to obtain and review at any time. In addition, the handbook shall be displayed at the company and its stock registrar and transfer agent.
    The shareholders' meeting agenda handbook and supplemental materials under the preceding paragraph shall be provided for review by the shareholders by the following means on the date the shareholder's meeting is convened:
  1. If the company convenes a physical shareholder's meeting, it shall distribute them on-site at the shareholder's meeting.
  2. If the company convenes a hybrid shareholder's meeting, it shall distribute them on-site at the shareholder's meeting and upload the electronic files to the video conferencing platform.
  3. If the company convenes a virtual-only shareholder's meeting, it shall upload the electronic files to the video conferencing platform.
    Twenty-one days before a company is to convene a regular shareholders’ meeting, or 15 days before it convenes a special shareholders' meeting, it shall prepare an electronic file of the shareholders’ meeting agenda handbook and the supplemental materials referred to in the preceding paragraph, and upload it to the information disclosure website specified by the FSC. However, in the case of a TWSE or TPEx listed company with paid-in capital reaching NT$2 billion or more as of the last day of the most recent fiscal year, or in which the aggregate shareholding percentage of foreign investors and Mainland Chinese investors reached 30% or more as recorded in the shareholders' register at the time of holding of the regular shareholders’ meeting in the most recent fiscal year, it shall upload the aforesaid electronic file by 30 days prior to the day on which the regular shareholders' meeting is to be held.