Board of Director Performance Evaluation
For effective corporate governance and better board performance, the Company has formulated the “Regulations on Board of Director Performance Evaluation” passed in the Board meeting on August 10, 2017, and it stipulates an internal performance evaluation for the Board once every year and an external evaluation every three years.
SYSTEX sends an internal Board Self-Assessment Questionnaire in December each year and reports the results of the evaluation at the latest Board meeting in the following year. The results of 2022 internal evaluation were presented to the Board on February 22, 2023.
Directors Performance Evaluation
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Internal Evaluation |
External Evaluation |
Evaluation cycles |
Once a year |
Once three years |
Evaluation periods |
Year 2022 from January 1 to December 31 |
From October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021 |
Scope of evaluation |
Evaluation scope covers the evaluation of the board as a whole, individual directors and functional committees. |
Board of Directors |
Method of evaluation |
Methods of inside evaluations include the internal evaluation of the board and functional committees, self-evaluation by individual board members. |
Methods of outside evaluations: |
Indexes of evaluation |
1. The board of directors, which should cover:
2. The board members, which should cover:
3. Functional committees , which should cover:
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The composition, the guidance, the authorization, the supervision, the |
2022 Internal Performance Evaluation
The results of the 2022 performance evaluation were submitted to the Board of Directors on February 22, 2023. If a score of 80 points is deemed to meet standards, the results of performance evaluation for the Company’s Board of Directors, Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee, and individual Directors were all above 80 points, demonstrating the satisfactory overall operations of the Board that is in line with the Company’s corporate governance principles.
Measures taken to strengthen the functionality of the board:
- In July 2021, the Taiwan Corporate Governance Association was appointed to perform the 2021 external board effectiveness evaluation (period from October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021), for detailed evaluation information, please refer to pages 39~40 of the 2021 annual report.
According to the evaluation recommendations, the implementation improvement measures in 2022 are as follows:- In July 2022, the head of the business unit will conduct an information service industry market analysis and operational report to the members of the board of directors, so that the directors can have a deeper understanding of SYSTEX’s business content, operational planning and goals.
- On August 3, 2022, the board of directors passed a resolution to formulate the ” Sustainable Development Best Practice Principles”, and set up a sustainable promotion team to supervise and manage the implementation of the project, and promote the coordination and cooperation of various departments in the company to promote sustainable development. Report the implementation results to the board of directors.
- On December 21, 2022, the board of directors resolved to formulate the “Risk Management Best Practice Principles “, “Risk Management Policies and Procedures” and “Risk Management Committee Charter “, and on the same day approved the establishment of a cross-department “Risk Management Committee” to assist The board of directors communicates, reports and advises on risk management, with the aim of broadly influencing all employees and organizations through the decision-making process and the support actions of leaders due to the support of the decision-making layer for risk culture, and regularly reports the implementation of risk management to the board of directors every year.
- The independence and suitability of certified accountants are regularly evaluated every year. The 2022 annual evaluation results have been submitted to the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors for consideration on December 21, 2022.
- The Company elected three Independent Directors in the election of the 10th Board of Directors in the general shareholders’ meeting on May 26, 2022 and established the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee on the same day. The state of operations of The Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee refer to page 40~44 and 55~56 of the 2022 annual report.
- In 2022, a total of 6 hours of Directors’ continuing courses arranged in May and November respectively to meet the number of training hours recommended by the law.