Public Notice on February 25 By Fair Trade Commission Order(91) Kung Chi Tzu No. 0910001699

Basis: Article 11, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 3 of the Fair Trade Law

Main Text:

1. Any merger that falls within any of the following circumstances shall be filed with this Commission in advance:

(1) Where an enterprise in a merger is a non-financial enterprise, its sales for the preceding fiscal year exceeds 10 billion New Taiwan Dollars, and the enterprise it merges has a sales amount exceeding 1 billion New Taiwan Dollars in the preceding fiscal year.

(2) Where an enterprise in a merger is a financial enterprise, its sales for the preceding fiscal year exceeds 20 billion New Taiwan Dollars, and the enterprise it merges has a sales amount exceeding 1 billion New Taiwan Dollars in the preceding fiscal year.

2. The sales monetary amount of a financial holding company or other holding company for the preceding fiscal year shall be verified and determined by calculating the combined sales monetary amounts for the preceding fiscal year of all of its subsidiaries in which it has controlling shareholdings. Where a financial holding company or other holding company itself or its subsidiary in which it has controlling [shareholding] has a merger falling within any of the circumstances provided in the subparagraphs of Article 11, Paragraph 1 of the Fair Trade Law, it shall be the financial holding company or such other holding company to file with this Commission.