Annual Report 2018

61 年報 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 企業管治報告 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT 董事於接受委任時及有任何變動已適時披露其 於公眾公司或組織擔任職位的數目及性質以及 其他重大承擔，和擔任該等公眾公司或組織所 涉及的時間。特別是，林耀堅先生持有超過七 間公眾公司的董事職位。然而，董事會仍然認 為他可投入足夠時間履行董事責任，原因是他 在過去兩年高度參與了本公司及其它他持有董 事職位的公司舉辦的所有會議及從會議記錄中 顯示，他對會議上討論的每項事務給予了寶貴 的建議和意見。林耀堅先生已向董事會確認， 他可投入足夠時間履行其作為獨立非執行董事 的責任。 董事長及董事總經理 於本年度回顧，李少峰先生及楊開宇先生分別 於二零一八年一月十八日及二零一八年一月 三十一日辭任後，董事長和董事總經理之角色 自二零一八年一月三十一日起一併由蘇凡荣先 生擔任，因此偏離守則之守則條文 A.2.1 條。 此偏離被視為恰當，原因是考慮到蘇先生在各 方面，特別是管理鋼鐵行業及銷售方面擁有的 豐富知識和經驗，董事會認為目前的安排仍可 使公司能夠及時制定決策以實現本公司目標。 有關此偏離的進一步細節已在第 54 頁上述標 題「 董事會 」中列出。 Directors have disclosed to the Company at the time of his appointment and in a timely manner for any change, the number and nature of offices held in public companies or organisations and other significant commitments and the time involvement in those public companies or organisations. In particular, Mr. Lam Yiu Kin holds more than seven public company directorships. The Board, however, still believes that he is able to devote sufficient time to the Board for the reasons that he has highly participated in all meetings held by the Company as well as other public companies he held directorships in the past two years and he made invaluable advice and comments on every business discussed at the meetings showing from the minutes record. Mr. Lam Yiu Kin had confirmed to the Board that he can devote sufficient time to discharge his duties and responsibilities of acting as an independent non-executive Director. CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR During the year under review, the roles of Chairman and managing Director were combined together and performed by Mr. Su Fanrong since 31 January 2018 following the resignation of Messrs. Li Shaofeng and Yang Kaiyu on 18 January 2018 and 31 January 2018 respectively, and thus deviated from the code provision A.2.1 of the Code. Such deviation is deemed appropriate as in consideration of Mr . Su ’ s ex t ens i ve knowl edge and exper i ence i n various aspects, in particular the management in the steel industry and sales area, the Board considers this present arrangement still enables the Company to make decisions promptly in the formulation and implementation of the Company’s strategies in achieving corporate goals. Further details of such deviation has been set out in page 54 under the heading “ THE BOARD ” above.