The transposition of new regulations into national legal systems, including updated goals and requirements for the management of packaging placed on the market and packaging waste produced, provides a number of opportunities for the operation of certain post-consumer waste management systems. The publication focuses on the essence and characteristics of the system of extended producer responsibility in selected European countries. In this paper, on the basis of an analysis taking into account the scopes of legal,economic, physical and informational liability, key areas of the extended producer responsibility system requiring improvements were identified, and recommendations were developed regarding the possibility of introducing changes to the functioning of the EPR system in Poland. The implementation of the improvement proposals for the EPR can significantly contribute to the achievement of the existing EU waste targets as well as the new ambitious targets included in the EU Circular Economy.