Abstract. Hyperbolic conservation laws of the form ut + div f(t, x; u) = 0 with discontinuous in (t, x) flux function f attracted much attention in last 20 years, because of the difficulties of adaptation of the classical Kruzhkov approach developed for the smooth case. In the discontinuous-flux case, non-uniqueness of mathematically consistent admissibility criteria results in infinitely many different notions of solution. A way to describe all the resulting L 1 -contractive solvers within a unified approach was proposed in the work [Andreianov, Karlsen, Risebro, 2011]. We briefly recall the ideas and results developed there for the model one-dimensional case with f(t, x; u) = f l (u)1 1x<0 + fr(u)1 1x>0 and highlight the main hints needed to address the multi-dimensional situation with curved interfaces.Then we discuss two recent developments in the subject which permit to better understand the issue of admissibility of solutions in relation with specific modeling assumptions; they also bring useful numerical approximation strategies. A new characterization of limits of vanishing viscosity approximation proposed in [Andreianov and Mitrović, 2014] permits to encode admissibility in singular but intuitively appealing entropy inequalities. Transmission maps introduced in ([Andreianov and Cancès, 2015]) have applications in modeling flows in strongly heterogeneous porous media and lead to a simple algorithm for numerical approximation of the associated solutions.Moreover, in order to embed all the aforementioned results into a natural framework, we put forward the concept of interface coupling conditions (ICC) which role is analogous to the role of boundary conditions for boundary-value problems. We link this concept to known examples and techniques.