ESG

iCatch’s SoCs are powering a diversity of camera applications in
multiple markets.

Implementation of sustainable development

In accordance with the provisions of Article 9 of “Sustainable Development Best Practice Principles” amended according to the resolution made by the Board of Directors of the Company on March 21, 2022, and based on the demand for the promotion of sustainable development, the president convened supervisors of relevant departments and designated personnel on December 6, 2023 to take charge of proposing and implementing sustainable development policies, systems, or relevant management guidelines and specific promotion plans. The Board of Directors authorizes the president to deal with economic, environment, and social issues resulting from the operating activities and report the handling status of the promotion of sustainable development to the Board of Directors at least once every year. The Company already reported the implementation status of sustainable development to the Board of Directors on December 17, 2024. 
The Sustainable Development Work Promotion Group is further divided into the following teams per function areas, i.e., corporate governance team, partnership team, happy workplace and social care team, and environmental sustainability team, comprising cross-department members including president, R&D, marketing, production management, finance and accounting, administration and human resources, information, safety and health, and other relevant units. The safety and health administrative unit serves as the deliberative unit. 

 

 
A. Sustainable Development and Sustainable Management Strategies
To realize corporate and environmental sustainability, iCatch has established sustainable management strategies to enrich its core technology, strengthen energy-saving R&D, and pay attention to sustainable technological talents in Taiwan. The Company adopts four constructs, namely, corporate governance, partnership, happy workplace and social care, and environmental sustainability as the basis for implementation and management. Additionally, the Company also aligns with 17 sustainability development goals (SDGs), SASB, TCFD and other relevant standards established by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development, to further assure the close consistency of its management strategies with international trends. 

B. Governance Structure of Sustainable Development Work Promotion Group of iCatch


C. Main responsibilities of the Sustainable Development Work Promotion Group: 

I. Establish sustainable development directions and goals including environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, ethical corporate management and risk management, and draw up relevant management policies and specific promotion plans. 
II. Advocate and implement work related to the Company’s sustainable development directions and goals. 
III. Track, review, and revise the implementation status and effect of corporate sustainable development. 
IV. Prepare the sustainability report.

Material topic Issues Management Policy

The iCatch Technology Sustainability Working Group discussed various aspects based on the GRI standards, supplemented by the company's operational focus, development, and environmental changes. The significance of each issue was assessed based on the severity and likelihood of actual and potential negative impacts. At the same time, we also conducted corresponding assessments based on the degree, scope and possibility of positive impacts. These material topic issues include eight themes: corporate governance, compliance with laws and regulations, risk management, product quality and responsibility, environmental impact and management, talent recruitment and salary and benefits, training and education, and workplace health and safety.

 
 
Material topics: Environment (E)
Material topic
Corresponding GRI topic
Administrative measures/policies
Evaluation mechanism
Environmental Impact and Management
GHG Emissions
GRI 305
 
  • Utilize TCFD framework to construct the climate risk identification process of the Company.The Sustainable Development Work Promotion Group discusses the results of climate risks and opportunities and identifies opportunities and risks across departments. 
  • Continually execute carbon reduction measures based on results of carbon inventory to lower emissions in Scope 1 and indirect GHG emissions in Scope as resulting from the use of electric power. 
  • Audit the internal annual plan and review and confirm that each operating process already complies with the regulations regarding relevant environmental regulations that shall be followed by the Company. 
 
  • Track the implementation effect of energy conservation and carbon reduction in the office area every quarter, and evaluate the implementation progress of the energy conservation and carbon reduction plan.
  • Report and review relevant work in the quarterly meeting of the Sustainable Development Work Promotion Group.
 
Material topics: Social (S) 
Material topic
Corresponding GRI topic
Administrative measures/policies
Evaluation mechanism

Talent recruitment and remuneration & welfare

Employment

GRI 401

  • Adhering to the concept of human orientation, iCatch firmly abides by labor laws and regulations of Taiwan, practically assures employees’ human rights in workplaces, provides a dignified and equal workplace environment, effectively protect labor rights and interests as well as friendly and harmonious labor relations, and implement the fairness of employment, remuneration and welfare, training, assessment, and promotion activities.

  • Promote digital transformation of the enterprise and create the competitive advantages of the organization.

  • Regularly check the convening of labor-management meetings.

  • Regularly verify each communication pipeline and confirm whether there are events regarding labor disputes.

  • Regularly verify the regulatory compliance.

  • Conduct annual remuneration investigation and salary adjustment work.

Diversity and Equal Opportunity
GRI 405
Employee training and exercise
Training and Education
GRI 404
iCatch provides education and training courses and subsidies. New colleagues can have a deeper understanding of the value and missions of iCatch through orientation education and training and participation in forums appointed with the president. Also, career promotion development planning of personal dual-track system has been provided, so that employees may take on specialized and refined technical R&D engineering or R&D management positions based on their ability and interest.
Regularly track the effect of training and satisfaction.
Workplace health and safety
Occupational Health and Safety
GRI 403
  • To assure employees’ safety and health, implement the management of occupational safety and health, and dedicate to reduce factors that harm employees’ safety and health, the Company has internally established “Occupational Safety and Health Management Plan”, “Code of Practice for Occupational Safety and Health”, “Workers’ Maternal Health Protection Plan”, and ”Implementation Plan for Prevention of Human Induced Hazards”. Also, it organizes employee health checkups and arranges site health services from specially appointed medical staff to prevent occupational hazards.
  • Giving priority to “Employee Safety” and aiming at zero hazards in workplaces, the Company regularly conducts safety and health inspections at ordinary times, to assure employees’ work safety; also, the Company regularly holds firefighting drills and safety and safety and health education and training to cultivate employees’ emergency response and safety awareness.
  • The Company has internally established an “Emergency Response Plan” to prevent or lower personal injuries, property losses, and impact on working environment due to various internal and external emergencies.
  • Gather statistics of the implementation effect every month.
  • Report to the Safety and Health Committee every quarter.
 
Material topics: Governance (G)
 
Material topic
Corresponding GRI topic
Administrative measures/policies
Evaluation mechanism
Corporate governance
Anti-corruption
GRI 205
Externally, iCatch emphasizes on integrity for customers. Internally, the Company strictly requires customers to be self-disciplined, observe the internal regulations of the Company and government regulations, and establish good corporate governance culture, to showcase the corporate value and protect stakeholders’ interests.
  • Regularly review whether diversified whistleblowing pipelines of the Company receive any reports of integrity violations.
  • Report the results of ethical corporate management to the Board of Directors every year.
 
Regulatory compliance
Compliance with Laws and Regulations
GRI 2-27
  • Establish relevant operating measures and procedures of the Company according to relevant regulations and based on the corporate operating activities, and implement and regularly supervise and audit the implementation status.
  • Regularly implement regulatory checking work, to stay updated with the latest requirements of relevant laws and regulations.
  • Each unit shall regularly check the addition or amendments of regulations, legally implement them, and conduct regular supervision and audits.  
  • Regularly check whether notices regarding penalties for violation of regulations. Each responsible unit shall put forward response and improvement measures to address the reasons for occurrence of such penalties, and regularly track the improvement conditions.
 
Risk management
Corporate continual management
Self-defined material topic
The Company has internally established “PROCedures for Risk Management”, “PROCedures for Emergency Treatment of Information Security System”, and “PROCedures for Management of Production Emergency Response Plan” and periodically reviewed risks and opportunities possibly encountered during the operation process, to ensure that the Company can respond in a timely manner in the face of operating risks.
  • Regularly execute training or drills every year to ensure that the Company is able to quickly and effectively cope with various emergencies.
  • Report the general situation of corporate information security governance to “Board of Directors” at least once every year.
 
Product quality and responsibility
Customer Health and Safety
GRI 416
  • The Company has internally established regulations including “Supplier Management PROCedure” and “Standards for Management of Outsourcing Plants” and “Measures for the Administration of Prohibited Substances Causing Environmental Hazards” to manage the Company and the outsourced process manufacturers, and prohibit the hazardous substances that harm the environment, with the objective to comply with the provisions of relevant international laws and regulations and the customers’ requirements.
  • To improve the safety and reliability of automotive IC products and assure the safety design and risk management of automotive IC products, the Company actively promoted ISO 26262 Road vehicles - Functional safety and ISO 21434 Road Vehicles-Cybersecurity engineering and ISO 21434 Road Vehicles-Cybersecurity engineering. The Company won the highest level of “ASIL D” process certificate of the global automotive safety standard (ISO 26262) issued by SGS-TÜV Saar in September 2023. The Company has already established a chip product development process system that conforms to the highest level of product functional safety according to the requirements of ISO 26262:2018, thus cultivating the chip product functional safety development and management capacity and reaching the international advanced level. To ensure the cybersecurity of the chip solutions, the Company obtained passed ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity design process certification and won relevant certificate, to ensure the safety of automotive electronic products in network applications and prevent the risks of potential networked attacks and data leakage. In the future, the Company will be capable of providing global automotive customers with intelligent image processing SoC product solutions integrated with functional safety and information security protection, to satisfy the application needs of automotive plants and tier-1 automotive customers.
  • Regularly execute indicators related to customer satisfaction survey every year, to effectively put forward response and improvement measures.
  • Execute monthly evaluation and annual audit to ensure effective operation of production lines/quality systems regarding the operations of outsourcing plants.