Introduction to Substitute Services System

1. Introduction to Substitute Services System Presentation Unit：Conscription Agency Ministry of the Interior

2. Content • Types of Military Service • Periods of Military Service • General substitute services • Research and Development Substitute Services • Information and contact window • Conclusion

3. Types of Military Service • Services of Ranking Officer－Standing Ranking Officer Service、Reserved Ranking Officer Service. • Non Commissioned Officer－Standing Non Commissioned Officer Service、 Reserved Non Commissioned Officer Service. • Enlisted Soldier Service－Standing Soldier Service、VoluntarySoldier Service （Physical Status for Rregular Serviceman ）Replacement Service（ Physical Status for Rregular Serviceman due to family & Representative team of national sports) • General Substitute Services－ Physical Status of Substitute Services DrafteesDraftee-to-be who applies to taking substitute service due to a family factor Draftee-to-be who applies to taking substitute service due to a religious factor Physical Status for Rregular Serviceman-to-be who applies to taking substitute service due to a special skill • R&D substitute service－ Physical Status for Rregular Serviceman & Physical Status of Substitute Services draftee-to-be with a Master’s degree or higher

4. Periods of Military Service • Enlisted Soldier Service： Standing Soldier Service (one year and two months), Replacement Service（12days） • General Substitute Services • Apply to take substitute service for Physical Status of Substitute Services Draftees（ one year and two months） • Apply to take substitute servicefor a Family Factor (one year and two months for both Physical Status of Regular or Substitute Services Draftees ） • Apply to take substitute servicefor a Religious Factor (one year and four months for Physical Status of Regular Service, one year and two months for Physical Status of Substitute Services Draftees ） • Physical Status of Regular Services draftee-to-be who applies to taking substitute service due to a special skill (one year and four months ) • R&D substitute service：Service Period is longer than Regular Service by obligatory draft(within 3 years). Mapping between regular service period and R&D substitute service period:

5. Generalsubstitute services • General Substitute services is open to returning overseas Chinese who have not served regular service • Summaries of 2005~2007 returning overseas Chinese draftees applying to take General Substitute services • General Substitute service types • RecruitmentandGeneral Substitute services training • Selection and assignment for General Substitute services types

6. General Substitute servicesis open to returning overseas Chinese who have not served regular service • Since 2005, we have accepted student who study abroad and still yet returned to serve compulsory military with a conversion to General Substitute services, to promote a national English language learning environment. and to accelerate internationalization. Mainly we hope to achieve the following goals: • Help the government to promote a national English language learning environment with their language abilities and support English teaching jobs in elementary schools. • Promote the global competitiveness and citizens foreign language abilities. • Provide multi-channels to solve the compulsory military issues for returning overseas draftees.

7. Summaries of 2005~2007 returning overseas Chinese draftees applying to take General Substitute services 1/2 • In 2005, 2006 and 2007 we created quotas for drafteeswith foreign diploma to apply for taking General substitute services due to a special skill . And we promoted and declared this via Bureau of Consular Affairs, ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan), The Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission (OCAC) , Overseas Office Republic Of China, and local Chinese newspaper and magazines in foreign countries; our compile statistics show that there were 370, 359, and 363 completed registration of enlistment in 2005, 2006, and 2007 respectively. Among them, there were 314, 322 and 318 sent their application material to Conscription Agency within the time limit specified by theMinistry of the Interior. After review, they were all accepted, and is now in the procedure of drafting and draw to determine their qualification for substitute service and enroll schedule.

8. Summaries of 2005~2007 returning overseas Chinese draftees applying to take General substitute service 2/2 • Out of the spirits of our service to overseas students and naturalized aliens, with no partiality of military conscription , Conscription Agency，Ministry of The Interior will continue to process the application fromoverseas draftees to take substitute services through special skills (It will be bulletined each year on March 1, and we will start accepting application from the first working day in April for 10 consecutive working days) to attract more returning overseas to serve this country.

9. General substitute service types • Police services • Fire fighting services • Social services • Environmental protection services • Medication services • Educational services • Agricultural Substitute Services • Other service types appointed by Executive Yuan

10. Recruitment and General substitute services training • General substitute service training can be categorized as Foundation Military Training and Specialized Training, the former is taken charge by Ministry of Interior to hold a Foundation Military Training in the training center of Cheng Kung Mountain for 4 weeks, and these programs include：adjusted educational program（orientation, interpersonal skill with the opposite sex, the way of life）, professional program（introduction of Regulations for Substitute Services Draftees in Training andDuty Services, Psychological Counseling and Law and order education）, general program（guard duty , deportment training）, urgent first-aid program, Sports and Fitness program and Chinese Manipulation & Qi Gong Therapy. The latter will be taken over by each User Organization upon completionof Foundation Military Training in accordance with the specialties and skills required by each duty service to design a 2~ 12 weeks training course.

11. Selection and assignment for general substitute service types • To make sure that each enlisted man taking GeneralSubstitute services must be assigned to a post which best suits his talents and specialties, a selection shall be held during each Stage for all enlisted men while staying in their basic military training centers in an open, fair and impartial manner according to their specialty and educational background before their military service. It is hoped that their willingness,abilities, academic histories, and specialties, as well as the demands of relevant requisition agencies shall all be satisfied.

12. R&D Substitute Services • History and Background • Overview of Conscription System Planning • Operation Procedure of Application and screening • Important things for interview

13. History and Background • To accommodate the national comprehensive economic development policy, make efficient use of R&D resources of male draftees, and to promote industrial R&D strength and competitiveness , pursuant to the military reform of Executive Yuan: to operate in coordination with conscription system adjustment, we enact and implement R&D substitute service system. • We drafted “Amendmentof Enforcement Statute for Substitute Services “ and endowed the bylaws for implementing R&D substitute service. R&D substitute services system will be implemented from 2008.

14. Overview of Conscription System Planning -1/7 • Implementation range and Target draftees of recruitment • Implementation range The types of institution and company that may apply for R&D service quotas are as follows: government agencies, research institutes, universities and colleges, research foundations and private-sector companies engaged in R&D activity whose operations have been confirmed as either conforming to the needs of the government's technology policy or industrial policy, or falling within the scope of the one of the key manpower cultivation areas designated by the government. • Target draftees of recruitment The males in the conscription age for the Substitute Services with domestic diploma or Ministry of Education qualified Foreign diploma of MS degree or higher, who is obligated to complete his military service not limited toreservist officer（ junior officer ）qualification, and their educations are not limited to natural science, engineering , medical or agricultural degrees.

15. Overview of Conscription System Planning -2/7 • male draftees ID R&D substitute services male draftees hold Identification Certificate of Substitute Services Draftees during their service period starting on the enrollment and being assigned to relevant requisition agencies on-duty（Conscription Law, Act 25: non-active service ID) and should be governed by relevant bylaws and Enforcement Regulations for Call-to-Service after Completion of Substitute Services by Draftees

16. Overview of Conscription System Planning -3/7 • Service Period and Stages Same as Service Period of Regular Service by obligatory draft Bulletin regarding Service Period of R&D substitute services

17. Overview of Conscription System Planning -4/7 • Rights and Interests of Military Personnel

18. Overview of Conscription System Planning-5/7 • Rights and Interests of Military Personnel

19. Overview of Conscription System Planning -6/7 • Service Period Deduction for Substitute Services Draftees During his service, if a R&D substitute service male draftee fails to serve the full obligated service period, and converts to general substitute services categories, only his service duration (number of days) fulfilled in the first stage of basic military training can be fully deducted, all other service duration fulfilled will be divided by 4 for service duration deduction.However, if the service period at relevant requisition agencies is less than one year,the service durationcan not be deducted.

20. Overview of Conscription System Planning -7/7 • Regulations for Exit of Draftees (go abroad, training or field practice) • R&D substitute services male draftee in service must not enter into the Mainland China area,unless the draftee has applied for the exit on the ground of investigate, visit, view and emulate, meeting , exhibition, collecting materials, academic exchange, and other special reasonsas assigned or recommended by relevant requisition agencies. • R&D substitute services male draftee in service is entitled to take foreign studies, training or field practiceas assigned or recommended by relevant requisition agencies; those who are sent forforeign studies, training or field practice should file application for exit pursuant to Regulations for Exit of Draftees.During the study and training, the total number of days of exit should not exceed ½ of the total obligated Service Period.

21. Operation Procedure of Application and Screening-1/2 • Application • From March 1 to March 17 in 2008 , for those who qualified applying through special skill should visit R&D substitute services information management system（http:// rdss.nca.gov.tw）in advance, login and enter personal information as well as enter a chosen servicing category and serving institute;upon completion of the online application, print out and sign the original copy of application form with watermark ,bring all required documents and certificates, mail it to ”Ministry of Interior R&D substitute services program office” before deadline; your filing date is the same as shown on postmark. ※ required documents and certificates：Proof of highest degree（ Diploma ）or a copy of proof of studying（Student ID）; must be notarized by overseas office ROC , and enclose a copy in printed Chinese.

22. Operation Procedure of Application and Screening-2/2 • Interview and screening • Male draftees who receive interview notice can proceed interview with relevant requisition agencies , and login the Information and eService Web Site before the announced deadline, opt and submit one preferred relevant requisition agency; the submitted data can not be changed. • Relevant requisition agencies login the Information and eService Web Site check and select the male draftees they wish to hire and prepare a list of these male draftees submit to Conscription Agency ，Ministry of The Interior for their approval.

23. Important things for interview -1/2 • Screening restriction • A R&D substitute services male draftee who is a relative within Degree 3 by blood or by marriage with executive members, board members, president, or equivalent management members at the relevant requisition agencies and people in power of the screening must not select therelevant requisition agencies; the above also apply to the draftee who was/is an executive member, board member, president, or participative shareholder at the relevant requisition agencies anytime in the last three years.

24. Important things for interview -2/2 • Preparing for the interview Male draftees applying for R&D substitute service should have his mind set the same as he would prepare for his professional career and have thorough understanding and obtain relevant information including: Salary, Rights and Interests of Military Personnel , refer to “ Process Inquiry forrelevant requisition agencies “ posted on Information and eService Web Site （such as, job type, professional specialty, benefit, working environment and location, Enforcement Regulations for Call-to-Service after Completion of Substitute Services by Draftees and Service Agreement）, use the information for your interview and selection ofrelevant requisition agencies .

25. Contact Windows

26. Ever since the implement of substitute service system in 2000, the results has been concrete; among these cases, applications for regular substitute service due to family factor can solve the service and family care issues for male draftees; applications for regular substitute service due to religious reason can promote human rights of male draftees and improve national image; those who qualified applying through special skillfor substitute service can enhance effectiveness of government service. Also, alternative service for individuals who have returned from studying overseas can solve their conscription service issues upon retuning home. R&D substitute service will be implemented from 2008. It not only resolves industrial human resource problem but also provide an alternative service channel for returning overseas students to achieve the equality and justifiability of the system,make efficient use of R&D resources of male draftees to accommodate the national comprehensive economic development policy. Conclusion

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