Back Market

Back Market is a French unicorn scale-up and the leading online marketplace for refurbished electronics, operating across 13 EU countries. With over 3 billion in revenue in 2025, it has become a circular economy leader aligned with Europe's environmental and competitiveness goals.

Back Market welcomes the initiative to review the Waste Framework Directive to further decrease waste generation and improve waste collection. As the leader of the refurbishment of electric and electronic appliances market, we indeed consider this is a unique opportunity of avoiding WEEE creation by addressing major bottlenecks hampering repair and refurbishment.

Back Market welcomes the European Commission's proposal on ESPR. However, we fear some of its provisions may threaten the viability of the second-hand market, and that of refurbishment in particular. Indeed, the current definition of refurbishment proposed by ESPR does not matches the characteristics of this practice.

Back Market, a specialized marketplace for refurbished electrical and electronic products, collaborates with more than 1000 European repairers and refurbishers, offering valuable expertise in the professional second-hand sector.

Back Market welcomes the Commission’s ambition to provide consumers with reliable information on the repairability, durability, and marketing of products sold on the EU market via the Empowering Consumers Initiative.

Back Market welcomes the Commission's Omnibus on taxation initiative but urges the extension of its scope beyond corporate direct taxation to include critical VAT issues that create significant administrative burdens for digital marketplaces.