Repair, reuse, and redesign: CME member stories
Last year, people sold over 26 million used items, saving 4.2 million tonnes of materials and 34 million tonnes of CO2-eq emissions on platforms run by CME member OLX Group. People using Schibsted’s platforms, another CME member, potentially saved 1.2 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by buying and selling on their...
CME welcomes agreement on balanced new product safety rules
Brussels, 29 November 2022: Classifieds Marketplaces Europe (CME) welcomes the agreement reached on 28 November by negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). CME fully supports the efforts to modernise the rules for all economic operators (manufacturers,...
Wallapop joins the Classifieds Marketplaces Europe coalition
Brussels, 21 November 2022: Wallapop, a Spanish leading online platform for selling and buying reused goods becomes the latest member to join Classifieds Marketplaces Europe (CME). Founded in Barcelona in 2013, and now operating in Spain, Italy and Portugal, Wallapop aims to encourage a more human and sustainable consumption model...
CME hosts first event on the role of circular consumption in meeting EU Green Deal targets
Brussels, 28 October 2022: Classifieds Marketplaces Europe this week brought together a varied audience of EU policymakers, civil society, and industry representatives to discuss circular consumption, ESPR and other issues. Speakers included MEP Arba Kokalari, Rozalina Petrova, Member of the Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for...
Amazing second-hand stories
Brussels, 25 October 2022: Circular consumption is key if we are to reach the goals of the European Green Deal. Buying and selling second-hand is one of the easiest ways to consume in a circular way. CME represents companies that enable users to give their products a second or even third life and contribute to …...
CME welcomes Vinted as a member
Brussels, 26 July 2022: Classifieds Marketplaces Europe (CME) welcomes Vinted as a member. Vinted’s C2C marketplace enables people to buy, sell, and exchange secondhand clothing and other lifestyle items. Founded in Lithuania in 2008, Vinted now operates in 16 markets across Europe and North America, catering to a fast-growing...
CME welcomes the Council’s decision to exclude consumer-to-consumer transactions from new rules on product safety
Brussels, 22 July 2022: Classifieds Marketplaces Europe (CME) welcomes the approval by member states’ Deputy Permanent Representatives of the Czech Presidency’s compromise text on the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). CME is pleased to see that the Council’s text excludes consumer-to-consumer (C2C) transactions from the...
Classifieds Marketplaces Remain a Force for the Green Transition Following DSA Vote
We usually talk about a couch when describing how classifieds marketplaces work and why they’re great. Not sure why we’ve gone with a couch rather than a bookcase or a bicycle, but in any case, here’s the basic story! You have a couch at home that you’ve used for years. It still does what it’s …...
CME welcomes IMCO Committee’s risk-based approach to product safety, empowering consumers participating in the circular economy
Brussels, 17 June 2022: Classifieds Marketplaces Europe (CME) welcomes the adoption by MEPs in the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) on 16 June of the report on the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR), in particular the exclusion of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) transactions from the definition of online...
Right to repair: making fixing the new normal
We all have memories from our childhood of falling over, tearing our trousers at the knee, then soon forgetting the pain while choosing a loudly coloured patch for the tear. Repairing things that were broken was second nature. As it should be. Covering a tear isn’t hard. Nor is, usually, fixing a broken chair or …...