“Examples of functionality tests should be expanded to identify testing protocols for key categories or types of used and waste electronic and electrical where they may exist. Emerging guidance from Basel PACE should also be reviewed for functionality tests applicable to used computing equipment.”

From p. 3 of response by Canada to  Basel Secretariat. 2010. ‘Draft Technical Guidelines on Transboundary Movement of E-Waste, in Particular Regarding the Distinction between Waste and Non-Waste (Version 22 September 2010)’. http://www.basel.int/Implementation/Ewaste/TechnicalGuidelines/DevelopmentofTGs/tabid/2377/Default.aspx.