{"url_path":"/sec/staa/10-q/2026/item-4","section_key":"item-4","section_title":"Item 4 CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"10-Q","doc_date":"2026-05-13","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/718937/0000718937-26-000023-index.html","accession_number":"0000718937-26-000023","cik":"0000718937","ticker":"STAA","issuer_name":"STAAR SURGICAL CO","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/718937/0000718937-26-000023-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0000718937","primary_entity_name":"STAAR SURGICAL CO"},"word_count":523,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"## ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES\n\nDisclosure Controls and Procedures\n\nAs of the end of the period covered by this report, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Co-CEOs and CFO, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the disclosure controls and procedures of the Company. Based on that evaluation, our Co-CEOs and CFO concluded, as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report on Form 10-Q, that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective. For purposes of this statement, the term “disclosure controls and procedures” means controls and other procedures of the Company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Securities Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.\n\nOur management, including the Co-CEOs and the CFO, do not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will necessarily prevent all fraud or material errors. An internal control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations on all internal control systems, our internal control system can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving its objectives and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within our Company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the control. The design of any system of internal control is also based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in circumstances, or the degree of compliance with the policies and procedures may deteriorate.\n\nChanges in Internal Control over Financial Reporting\n\nThere were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended April 3, 2026 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.\n\n# PART II – OTHER INFORMATION"}