The concept of Extneded Producer Responsibility (EPR) was first introduced in 1990 as "an environmental protection strategy […] making the producer of the product responsible for the entire life-cycle of the product and especially for the take-back, recycling and final disposal”. EPR implies that producers (including manufacturers as well as importers) take over the financial and/or organisational responsibility for collecting waste, as well as sorting and treating them for recycling or reuse. EPR policies provide producers with an incentive to take into account environmental considerations from the design phase to the end-of-life (EoL) of their products. Policy makers at EU and country level are becoming increasingly aware of the potential of EPR as a policy instrument to help prevent waste at the source, support the achievement of collection, recycling and recovery targets, as well as to reduce the environmental impact of a product. Over the past 20 years, this increasing awareness has led to the wide adaptation of the EPR concept for many waste streams across Europe. As a consequence of this growing interest, the EPR policy landscape keeps evolving and results in an increasing complexity for producers to meet their obligations. To encounter the administrative and operational burden but also the additional complexity stemming from a fast-changing policy landscape, producers can collaborate through collective EPR schemes. The collective schemes exempt the producers from directly managing their waste and allow them to comply with the changing regulatory landscape while maximising the environmental, financial and social benefits. The objective of this report is to outline the characteristics and practices that contribute to an EPR scheme’s successful performance and to its efficient management. To do so, the key aspects of EPR systems will be reviewed, focusing on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), Waste Batteries and Accumulators and Packaging Waste streams in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom (UK) to highlight commonalities as well as notable practices amongst schemes in these countries that contribute to their schemes’ performance.