AUO AU Optronics Corp

UNITED STATES  

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION  

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM SD  

Specialized Disclosure Report

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Benjamin Tseng  

Chief Financial Officer  

1 Li-Hsin Road 2  

Hsinchu Science Park  

Hsinchu, Taiwan  

Republic of China  

Telephone No.: +886-3-500-8800  

Facsimile No.: +886-3-564-3370  

Email: IR@auo.com  

(Name and telephone, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report)

Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:

Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure

ITEM 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report

The following should be read in conjunction with the definitions contained in the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) instructions to Form SD and related rules.

With respect to conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of products manufactured by AU Optronics Corp. (“we,” “us” or “our”), or contracted by us to be manufactured, and required to be reported on Form SD for 2015 (collectively, “CMs”), we conducted in good faith a country of origin inquiry that we believe was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the CMs originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (“Covered Countries”) or were from recycled or scrap sources. For a description of our country of origin inquiry, please see the discussion in Exhibit 1.02 of the measures we took to exercise due diligence (of which such inquiry was a part), which discussion is incorporated herein by reference.

To the extent we know or have reason to believe that the CMs originated, or may have originated, in the Covered Countries and may not have been from recycled or scrap sources, we exercised due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the CMs as required by the SEC rules. In exercising due diligence, we were not able to determine whether the CMs that originated, or may have originated, in the Covered Countries directly or indirectly financed or benefitted armed groups. Based on our good faith country of original inquiry and due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the CMs, we made the determination that the CMs are underterminable origin. For further information, please refer to Exhibit 1.02.

The disclosures contained in this Form SD are available on our website, http://auo.com/?sn=161&lang=en-US. The website and the information accessible through it are not incorporated into this specialized disclosure report.

ITEM 1.02 Exhibit

The registrant’s Conflict Minerals Report required by Item 1.01 is attached hereto as Exhibit 1.02.

ITEM 2.01 Exhibits

Exhibit 1.02 - Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.

Date: May 31, 2016

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