Criteria 3 reads:

" Used equipment and their components and any residual waste, materials, and products shall continue to be owned or controlled by the exporter (with or without third parties involved in implementation) throughout the export, transit, import, testing, repair, and refurbishment processes, until they are either tested, fully functional equipment or components and are made available for direct reuse, or as resulting scrap/waste disposed of according to [Criteria 6]"

From p. 11 of Basel Secretariat. 2014. ‘Draft Technical Guidelines on Transboundary Movements of Electronic and Electrical Waste and Used Electrical and Electronic Equipment, in Particular Regarding the Distinction between Waste and Non-Waste under the Basel Convention (Draft of 20 November 2014)’.