I need a word ...

This just came up at work, so naturally I thought of Fluther.

I need to develop a word (which we would probably almost never use) to describe a “required process” ... which would not need to be performed, except that it is required by policy. (Isn’t that elegantly stupid?)

I started to describe the reason why this is necessary, but the explanation was even putting me to sleep; no one would read it, I’m sure.

We have a common system shared between two similar business units operating in different countries. One business unit has modified the process to require a step that the other unit would normally never perform, and which serves no purpose for them. However, if the system is altered, the second unit would be required to perform a completely valueless step (simple and quick, but annoying even so). The system has to be pretty similar between the two business units. (Even though the process is slightly different, the system needs to be similar.)

Be inventive now. What’s the word to describe the process as it would be perceived at the unit that doesn’t get any value from it? (If there’s an existing word that I don’t know, let me know that, instead. We’ve already looked at and discarded make-work.)