1. Method of Nomination and Election
Pursuant to paragraph 1, Article 14-2 of Taiwan's Securities and Exchange Act (hereinafter as “Securities and Exchange Act”): “a company that has issued stock in accordance with this Act may appoint independent directors in accordance with its articles of incorporation. The Competent Authority, however, shall as necessary in view of the company's scale, shareholder structure, type of operations, and other essential factors, require it to appoint independent directors, not less than two in number and not less than one-fifth of the total number of directors”, China Steel Corporation's (hereinafter as "the Corporation") 2006 stockholders’ meeting therefore passed the resolution to revise the Corporation's Articles of Incorporation (hereinafter as "Articles of Incorporation”) including the revision of Article 22 about the election of Directors adopting the nomination method, as well as the revision of Article 22-1 about appointing the Independent Directors. Such revisions have been effective since the Corporation's 2007 shareholders’ meeting.

2. The Nomination Process
In accordance with the Company Act's provisions of Articles 172-1, 192-1 and Article 216-1,a shareholder who held issued shares by 1% or more in the Corporation may present his/her list of independent director candidates in writing to the Corporation within the period of nomination from April 11th to April 20th , 2022. The Corporation declared its nomination list of director candidates at Market Observation Post System on April 21th, 2022.
In the declaration period, only Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C. slated Mr. Shyue-Bin Chang , Mr. Min-Hsiung Hon and Ms. Lan-Feng Kao for candidates of Independent Director. The qualifications of three candidates were evaluated and passed by the resolution of the Corporation's 20th board meeting of the 17th Board of Directors on May 6, 2022.

3.Personal Data of Candidates