While EU waste policies provide a framework for the proper treatment of waste, product policies focus on requirements the products have to comply with when being commercialized. The connection between the WEEE Directive and the Ecodesign Directive is expressed in recital 11 and Article 4 in the WEEE Directive, where it is said that eco-design requirements facilitating and encouraging re-use, dismantling and recovery of WEEE should be promoted. In recital 35 of the Ecodesign Directive, the WEEE Directive is listed as one of the “complementary” laws. Thus, an increased synergy between the waste policy for WEEE and the product policies for EEE is desired in order to, among other goals, increase the recyclability of WEEE. However, there are several barriers that need to be overcome in order to set requirements on recyclability in the Ecodesign Directive, including the methodology applied, the policy process, and issues related to verification and compliance. In this contribution, we make use of an extensive literature review and semi-structured interviews in order to identify the barriers and provide ideas on how to overcome them.