To enable investors to have greater awareness of the contents of agenda items for listed companies’ annual shareholders’ meetings at an earlier date, and to encourage shareholders to participate in shareholders’ meetings and exercise their rights, in line with the amendment to Article 6 of the Regulations Governing Content and Compliance Requirements for Shareholders' Meeting Agenda Handbooks of Public Companies, listed companies shall transmit electronic files of the shareholders’ meeting agenda handbook and supplemental meeting materials to the information reporting website designated by the Financial Supervisory Commission 30 days prior to the annual shareholders’ meeting. The Taiwan Stock Exchange announced amendments to Article 3 of the Sample Template for XXX Co., Ltd. Rules of Procedure for Shareholders Meetings. In addition, with reference to the relevant international rules on scrutineers, if a shareholders’ meeting includes an election of directors where the number of candidates exceeds the number of seats to be filled, a proposal for the dismissal of directors, or any proposal under Article 185 or Article 316 of the Company Act, Articles 18, 27, 29, or 35 of the Business Mergers and Acquisitions Act, or Article 24, paragraph 2, subparagraph 1 or Article 26, paragraph 2, subparagraph 1 of the Financial Holding Company Act, it is recommended that the chair appoint a lawyer, certified public accountant, or notary public as assessor, and that such assessor satisfy the relevant independence requirements. Paragraphs 8 through 11 of Article 13 of the above Sample Template were accordingly added. The Taiwan Stock Exchange encourages listed companies to refer to this amendment and revise the relevant rules of procedure for shareholders’ meetings at this year’s shareholders’ meetings.