Message from Jonney Shih
President

ASUSTek Computer Inc. (ASUS) is pleased to be an active participant in the worldwide effort to provide greener computers and other information technology equipment. We are committed to protecting the environment in many ways, especially in our manufacturing processes and our products. To demonstrate our commitment to protecting the environment and global challenges such as climate change, we have implemented a set of rigorous policies and standards that all of our manufacturing and product design processes aimed to meet. In addition, we focus just as thoroughly on responsible end-of-life management for our products. Finally, we are committed to continuous improvement of conditions related to workers' safety and health.

Since 2000, we have been carrying out a series of special initiatives and research projects, such as developing Taiwan's first lead-free motherboard and Taiwan's first Green Parts Management System. One focus of our current GreenASUS projects is Green Design, through the precautionary principle whereby we monitor and seek to eliminate the use of toxic chemicals at all steps in the manufacturing process. As we phase out substances that may be hazardous, we review and test alternative substances to ensure that they will not have adverse impacts. This is both in keeping with the Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) law and for substances not presently banned under RoHS and related laws.

Our GreenASUS project also supports the design of products for ease of recycling. We initiated Taiwan's first green design system for easy reuse, easy recycling and easy disassembly. This project aims at increasing the reuse and recyclability of products through careful material selection and easy-disassembly-conscious design. As our products reach the end of their useful life, ASUS advocates for responsible end-of-life management. We follow the European Union directive on the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and are proud to be part of programs for recycling and reusing our products worldwide. We are vigorously developing green recycling systems and are pleased to announce that since September 2006, customers in the United States have been able to recycle old ASUS notebook computers free of charge. We are proud that we are the first Taiwanese company to take a step forward to taking extended producer responsibility in providing free takeback services in the United States.

Our goal is to meet and exceed international legislation on design, including the future European Union directive on Energy-using Products (EuP), which establishes a framework for setting eco-design requirements.

In 1998 ASUS acquired the ISO 14001 certification of our environment management system, which demonstrates our commitment to managing and reducing the environmental impact of our operations.

Moreover, we are proud that we have never experienced any losses or disciplinary action due to any national or international environmental violation.

This year, we acquired the IECQ QC 080000 HSPM (Hazardous Substance Process Management) certificate which again demonstrates ASUS commitment and actions towards greening our products and management systems.

ASUS' employees are our most important asset. We have more than ninety-seven thousand employees around the world, and it is our responsibility to make sure that we provide them with a healthy and safe working environment. ASUS received the OHSAS 18001 employee health and safety management system certification in 1999. For three consecutive years since 2001, we received two awards recognizing our efforts -- Taiwan's Best Company for Labour Safety and Health Prize and the Taiwan Five Star Awards. We are not content to stop at these achievements and are committed to working hard to further improve our employees' social welfare.

We at ASUS are proud of our environmental efforts in the past years. We will continue to commit to proactively protecting natural resources. In addition, we will strive for pollution prevention and will persist in our active commitment to "clean production, green manufacturing". Most important of all, we pledge to continue taking good care of our employees and the world we live in by taking full corporate social and environmental responsibility for our actions.