Blackberry 2013 Annual Report Download - page 2

Disclosure controls and procedures are defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as those
controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Registrant in reports filed or
submitted by it under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), is recorded, processed, summarized
and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.
The Registrant’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have evaluated the Registrant’s disclosure controls and
procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report and have determined that such disclosure controls and
procedures were effective. A discussion of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures can be found in its Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the fiscal year ended March 2, 2013, included in
Exhibit No. 1.3 to this Annual Report, under the heading “Disclosure Controls and Procedures and Internal Controls – Disclosure
Controls and Procedures”.
See Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the fiscal year ended March 2,
2013, included in Exhibit No. 1.3 to this Annual Report, under the heading “Disclosure Controls and Procedures and Internal Controls
– Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”.
The attestation report of Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) is included in EY’s report, dated March 28, 2013, to the shareholders of the
Registrant, which accompanies the Registrant’s audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 2, 2013,
filed as Exhibit 1.2 to this Annual Report.
See Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the fiscal year ended March 2,
2013, included in Exhibit No. 1.3 to this Annual Report, under the heading “Disclosure Controls and Procedures and Internal Controls
– Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”.
The Registrant was not required by Rule 104 of Regulation BTR to send any notice to any of its directors or executive officers
during the fiscal year ended March 2, 2013.
The Registrant’s Board of Directors has determined that each of Barbara Stymiest, Claudia Kotchka, David Kerr and John
Richardson, individuals serving on the Audit and Risk Management Committee of the Registrant’s Board of Directors, is an audit
committee financial expert, within the meaning of General Instruction B(8)(a) of Form 40-F.
The Commission has indicated that the designation of a person as an audit committee financial expert does not make such
person an “expert” for any purpose, impose any duties, obligations or liability on such person that are greater than those imposed on
members of the Audit and Risk Management Committee and the Board of Directors who do not carry this designation or affect the
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A. Disclosure Controls and Procedures
B. Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
C. Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm
D. Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
E. Notice of Pension Fund Blackout Period
F. Audit Committee Financial Expert