The university council of the national university shall handle the following matters:
1. Deliberation over applications to set up or continue operating a key research institute.
2. Deliberation over the closure or cessation of operations of a key research institute.
3. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s improvement plans for future reference.
4. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s annual operations plans and performance reports for future reference.
5. Approval of the appointment of industry representatives, the representatives of the full time teachers nominated by the president of the university, and external scholars and experts to the supervisory committee.
6. Keeping copies of the regulations governing the supervisory committee’s operations, and performance assessments, and other compliance matters, for future reference.

A national university that sets up a key research institute shall set up a supervisory committee with 15 members, and the term any member is appointed to serve on the committee at one time is not permitted to exceed four years. The members shall select one member to be the convener.
The supervisory committee shall comprise government representatives, a representative of graduate students, a student association representative, industry representatives, representatives of fulltime teachers, and an external scholar or expert, appointed by the national university. The number of representatives in each category and the method of their selection and appointment are as follows:
1. There are five government representatives who are appointed（assigned）by the competent authority after deliberation and approval by the innovation steering committee. The competent authority may appoint or assign replacements on a needs basis. One of the government representatives must be a full-time teacher at the national university.
2. One graduate student representative is nominated by a student-related autonomous organization at the national university; if the national university does not have an autonomous organization associated with graduate students, the graduate student representative shall be nominated by the graduate students in the national university’s student association.
3. A student association representative, nominated by the national university’s student association.
4. Two industry representatives, nominated by the president of the university and approved by the university council.
5. Five representatives of full-time teachers, three of whom do not have a concurrent administrative position; two of these three are selected by the teacher representatives on the university council from among themselves, and one is chosen by the teachers’ organization at the national university. If the national university does not have a teachers’ organization, that representative will be selected by the teacher representatives on the university council from among themselves. The other two full-time teacher representatives are teachers who have been nominated by the president of the university and approved by the university council.
6. One external expert or scholar, who has been nominated by the president of the university and approved by the university council.
At least one of the members of the supervisory committee shall have a professional auditing background and related work experience.

The supervisory committee has the following responsibilities:
1. Approval of appointments to the management committee of the key research institute.
2. Approval of the appointment of the dean of the key research institute.
3. Deliberation over unfitness for office of a key research institute dean.
4. Formulation of regulations governing the operations and performance assessment of the supervisory committee and other compliance matters.
5. Formulation of regulations governing the appointment, operations, recusal, and performance assessment of auditing personnel and other compliance matters.
6. Formulation of items pertaining to supervision and appraisal of the dean of key research institute.
7. Deliberation over any proposed changes to the innovation plan.
8. Deliberation over the key research institute’s annual operations plans and performance reports.
9. Keeping copies for future reference of the key research institute’s improvement plan if the management committee determines that its operational planning and/or performance is poor.
10. Deliberation over improvement plans put forward by the key research institute based on its performance report.
11. Deliberation over plans for continuing the operations or the closure of the key research institute, or deliberation over plans for cessation of its operations.
12. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s regulations governing the management committee operations, performance assessments, and other compliance matters, for future reference.
13. Keeping records of the provision of a set proportion of the key research institute’s income from its R&D results to the national university each year to use to improve teaching staff, supplement facilities, and for other expenditure for further development of the university.
14. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s regulations governing procurement operations for future reference.
15. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s regulations governing student affairs for future reference.
16. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s regulations governing the appointment, salaries, concurrent employment, secondment, reviews of qualifications, dismissal, suspension, and non-renewal of employment of its personnel for future reference.
17. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s regulations governing implementation of its risk management system for future reference.
18. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s regulations governing management of its budget compilation, implementation, and compilation of annual financial statements, and related financial revenue and expenditure for future reference.
19. Keeping copies of the key research institute’s regulations governing its teaching quality assurance mechanism（s）, evaluation, and related matters for future reference.
20. Matters, apart from those listed in the preceding 19 subparagraphs, that this Act stipulates that the supervisory committee shall deliberate over or keep details of for future reference.
21. Other matters related to key research institute supervision.
The regulations referred to in Subparagraph 4 of the preceding paragraph shall be submitted to the university council of the national university for future reference.

The supervisory committee shall appoint one or several auditing personnel to check the financial books and statements, and internal controls of the key research institute, assess its operating performance and then produce an annual audit report; the key research institute shall cooperate by providing related information and it is not permitted to evade, or hinder providing such information, or refuse to cooperate.
After any shortcomings or irregularities listed in the annual audit report referred to in the preceding paragraph have been deliberated on by the supervisory committee and it has approved the report, the auditing personnel shall follow up follow-up the situation at regular intervals until the related matters have been remedied.