MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Back Market

Company · Consumer & retail also Technology & digital · HQ: France · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, Back Market appears in 27 declared MEP meetings (19 different MEPs), most often with Socialists & Democrats.

27
declared meetings
with current MEPs
19
MEPs met
€50k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
1.5
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Back Market is the first marketplace that provides consumers with access to thousands of electrical and electronic products, refurbished by professionals. Our mission : Empower humanity to save machines through circularity and repair. Our North star : There should no longer be any factual reason to prefer a new product over a refurbished one.”

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“In order to achieve it, we are actively supporting our sellers on quality improvement with a unique set of service offer going from finding used devices supply and quality parts to logistics and after sale.”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 27 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Socialists & Democrats933%
Greens/EFA726%
Renew Europe519%
European People's Party311%
The Left27%
European Conservatives & Reformists14%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (11 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2020
1
2021
0
2022
6
2023
4
2024
3
2025
11
2026
2

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

David Cormand
4 meetings · Greens/EFA
Pascal Canfin
3 meetings · Renew
Sara Matthieu
2 meetings · Greens/EFA
René Repasi
2 meetings · S&D
Pasquale Tridico
2 meetings · The Left

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
25 Jun 2026Bruno TobbackRefurbished electronics & CEA
22 Jun 2026Pascal CanfinEuropean Product Act / Circular Economy Act
12 Nov 2025Aurore LalucqVAT - Investments
8 Oct 2025David CormandNew legislative framework
7 Oct 2025Pascal CanfinCircular Economy
17 Sep 2025Pascal CanfinDigital policies & Savings & Investment Union & 28th Regime
28 Apr 2025Denis NesciPosition discussion
24 Mar 2025Peter AgiusIntroduction
24 Mar 2025Elisabeth Grossmannexchange of views on NLF
4 Mar 2025Pasquale TridicoMeeting online with Alexandre Tanay Back Market
6 Feb 2025Pasquale TridicoMeeting Back Market - MEP Tridico office
29 Jan 2025David CormandNew legislative framework
29 Jan 2025Saskia BricmontE-commerce
30 Sep 2024Pierre Jouvetenjeux de l'économie circulaire
9 Jul 2024Thomas Pellerin-Carlinindustrial policies

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