In November 2020, in response to the 2018 Directive 2018/851/EU on Waste, the WEEE Compliance Promotion Exercise and the 2019 Commission’s draft Guidelines on general minimum requirements, the WEEE Forum set up a task force. Working with individual producers and APPLiA and individual members from DIGITALEUROPE, the sector’s producer associations, as well as the forty-five producer responsibility organisations (PRO) in the WEEE Forum, the objective of the task force is to proactively set the framework, principles and mechanisms for a harmonised eco-modulated fee scheme in Europe which is compatible both with existing EPR implementation and the producer community’s current calls for system change as outlined in “An enhanced definition of EPR and the role of all actors”, ensuring that policy initiatives are impactful and that good product design is rewarded by criteria for eco-modulation which are effective, easy to implement, fair, compatible with existing EPR systems and harmonised across Europe. Acknowledging that eco-modulation of fees is a useful concept whilst the benefits depend a great deal on the way the scheme is put into practice, and with an open mind, the task force set out to explore which criteria and products can be selected for eco-modulation, how to develop a simplified fee modulation, how to construct the compliance framework for both producers and PROs, the operational aspects of bonus/malus, how to embed eco- modulation in a competitive PRO landscape and how the fee can be utilized as a tool to influence purchasing behaviour and stimulate sustainable product design. Furthermore, echoing the Compliance Promotion Exercise, in designing those criteria, the task force also assessed lessons learned in France and in the lighting sector. The work of the task force is on-going, and the final results will be presented later in the year. Having been through an exercise to devise a simple list of priority products, this interim paper is being submitted to the Commission to share some of the barriers and limitations we have encountered.