Summary

Supplement 32 to ITU-T L-series Recommendations on eco-rating outlines a baseline assessment framework and defines a minimum set of criteria to be considered when assessing the environmental performance of mobile phones.

This Supplement is designed to enable manufacturers to assess mobile phones in order to demonstrate a minimum level of environmental performance and also to achieve enhanced environmental performance.

–          clause 7 lists the criteria to consider when seeking compliance to the minimum level of environmental performance described in this Supplement;

–          clause 8 addresses how products can achieve higher levels of environmental performance.

This Supplement does not promote any form of labelling and the methods by which ratings are displayed to consumers remain at the discretion of manufacturer or the sales entity.