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of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: of June 30, 2023, being the end of the period covered by this Report, our management conducted an evaluation, under the supervision and
−Removed: with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and
−Removed: procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and Rule 15d15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
+Added: of September 30, 2023, being the end of the period covered by this Report, our management conducted an evaluation, under the supervision
+Added: and with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls
+Added: and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and Rule 15d15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or
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chief financial officer, as appropriate, to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: on that evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of June 30, 2023, our disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures were not effective due to the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting as discussed in Item
−Removed: Controls and Procedures – in the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, under the heading “Management’s
−Removed: Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”.
+Added: on that evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of September 30, 2023, our disclosure
+Added: controls and procedures were not effective due to the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting as discussed
+Added: Controls and Procedures – in the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, under the heading
+Added: “Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”.
on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures
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in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: the quarter ended June 30, 2023, Management remediated the design deficiencies associated with the material weaknesses around
−Removed: logical access and change management.
−Removed: Management will continue to validate the operational effectiveness of this remediation during
−Removed: the third quarter of 2023.
−Removed: 2022, there was an isolated occurrence of a miscalculation of a certain non-cash share-based compensation transaction that was not detected
−Removed: on a timely basis.
−Removed: Management has since subscribed to a share-based compensation software that is expected to perform complex calculations
−Removed: completely and accurately.
−Removed: Management is reviewing the calculations performed by the software and expects to report that this weakness
−Removed: has been remediated by the end of the fourth quarter.
−Removed: Management expects to come to a final determination on these matters so as to appropriately
−Removed: integrate the outcomes in management’s assessment of Internal Controls over Financial reporting as of December 31, 2023.
−Removed: the second quarter, management continued to commit substantial resources to the ongoing evaluation of the internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting of its previously exempted subsidiaries, SemaConnect and Blink Charging UK Limited.
−Removed: as described above, there were no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter
−Removed: ended June 30, 2023, that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial
+Added: During the quarter ended September
+Added: 30, 2023, management continued to validate the operational effectiveness of the remediation of the material weaknesses reported in the
+Added: Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: Furthermore, management continued to commit resources to the ongoing
+Added: evaluation of the internal control over financial reporting of its previously exempted subsidiaries, SemaConnect and Blink Charging UK
+Added: the close of the third quarter of 2023, indicators of impairment were identified by the Company prompting it to undertake an
+Added: impairment assessment of the carrying value of its goodwill earlier than the Company’s normal annual assessment.
+Added: properly stated at the end of the quarter, the initial goodwill impairment was miscalculated.
+Added: Accordingly, management
+Added: identified this deficiency as a material weakness related to the operational effectiveness of its internal controls in the goodwill
+Added: impairment process.
+Added: Specifically, this related to the timing of the controls and the formalization of documentation to substantiate
+Added: Management expects to remediate the timing and documentation of the controls during the fourth quarter of
+Added: for the above, there were no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended September
+Added: 30, 2023, that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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