Table 2.

Relevance of the different characteristics to different purposes.

	Product Design	Policy Compliance	EoL Treatment Improvement
Good trade-off between accuracy and detail of information	●	●	●
Ease-of-application	●	●	●
Flexible	●	●	●
Intelligible	●	●	●
Facilitate product information exchange between:
OEMs and EoL operators	●		●
OEMs and Market authorities	●	●
Verifiable		●
Reproducible and repeatable		●
Unambiguous		●
Suitable to set up regulatory requirements		●
Align with existing regulations		●
Enable evaluation of changes in product design	●
Facilitate communication of product information to users	●
Do not hinder technological innovation	●
Allow EoL treatment cost calculation			●