The article discusses the amendments introduced to the provisions on the aggregate penalty, by the revision of the Penal Code of 7 July 2022, in particular, the new content of the Article 85a specifying the directives on the imposition of aggregate penalty. The legislator rearranged the order of these directives, listing the general prevention directive as the first and the individual prevention directive as the second. This amendment can be interpreted as granting priority to the general prevention directive. The wording of the Article 85a of the Penal Code would preclude that, with such interpretation, the catalogue of aggregate penalty directives should be considered exhaustive. Non-statutory criteria on the imposition of aggregate penalty developed by the judicature could then be taken into account only within the framework of the directive of general or individual prevention. It appears, however, that such far-reaching conclusions are not sufficiently justified.