2008 Annual Report - MiTAC International

Items Status Differentiation with other publicly-traded companies and why
(7) How Directors avoid the conflict of interests: not join voting.
(8) Customer policies: We maintain a good and long-term relationship with customers.
(9) Liability Insurances purchase for Directors and Supervisors: All insurances are purchased and posted to Public Information Observation by the “Corporate Governance
Best-Practice Principles for TSEC/GTSM Listed Companies”.
(10) All Directors and Supervisors are responsible and are good administrators.
(11) We drafted a code of Board Meetings and have been practicing it.
(12) To more efficiently manage the company, Board meetings are held at least once quarterly.
(13) Status of Managers participating in educational training:
Manager Institute Course name Hours
Vice GM
C.S. Chen
Accounting Research
and Development
Foundation in Taiwan
Nov. 6, 2008 The stock transfer and tax plan
for directors and supervisors and major
shareholders
8. If with a self-evaluation or evaluation from other professional institute, please describe the results and major flaws and suggestions: None.
e. Social contribution to environmental protection, community involvement, contributions, services, welfare, consumer rights, human rights, safety and
hygiene and other social responsibilities and their implementation:
1) Environmental protection
A. Systems: a. In response to RoHS/WEEE direction, the company has established a management system for green products and green supply chains.
b. For corporate social responsibility, we will regulate the company by a self claimer in products.
B. Outcome: a. In order to fulfill the responsibility of the electronics industry, the company is in the down-stream of the supply chain; therefore, the company is able to
demand suppliers to widely use green materials to reduce or stop using hazardous substances by being certified as a green plant, i.e. GPMS or QC80000.
b. Has already announced the self claimer of EU’s environmental requirement for PND products. The result of MiTAC’s environmental protection has
appeared and promoted MiTAC’s honesty and competition.
2) Community involvement
A. System: Encourage employees to start charitable clubs and sponsor and participate in charities.
B. Outcome: Employee clubs collect and donate materials to needed groups, including women, children, disabled, abused and people receiving life-support.
3) Social services:
A. System: a. Sponsor Y.S. Design Award to nurture domestic designers.
b. Provide internships for students.
c. Provide different industrial conferences to share managerial and industrial experiences.
B. Outcome: a. Y.S. Design Award is open for products for the sixth year and the fifth year’s finale. There are two awards: website design and industrial design. The
purpose is to cultivate potential designers, and increase competing abilities. We invite famous designers to share their experiences via blogs and
conferences.
b. Provide awards for corporate internships and encourage other excellent students to apply for intern opportunities.
4) Social Services: We devote ourselves to community service. The Earth Day- beach cleaning in April 2008 had a great response.
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