Adevinta

Adevinta is a leading online classifieds group and champion for sustainable commerce across Europe and beyond.

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Lobbying Activity

24 Oct 2025

Adevinta welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the European Commissions consultation on the proposed Digital Fairness Act (DFA). We welcome the overall ambition of the European Commission to ensure a fair, transparent and trustworthy digital environment, which provides a high level of protection to European consumers online. However, we believe that the current European consumer law framework, including the Digital Services Act, Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and General Data Protection Regulation, remains fit for purpose to address many of the problematic practices identified by the Commission. We believe that instead of creating new rules for European businesses, current rules should be consistently and coherently implemented and enforced to reach a proper balance between consumer protection and competitiveness. Our response focuses on four practice areas that most affect our business and the online marketplace industry: (1) manipulative interfaces, (2) addictive designs (3) digital advertising, and (4) subscription cancellation and withdrawal. Across these topics, we support outcomes that enhance consumer protection, accessibility, privacy, and trust while preserving clarity and legal certainty for European businesses and SMEs. Beyond these four focus areas, Adevinta encourages the Commission to prioritise horizontal enablers that make the existing legal framework operate as a coherent whole: strengthen coordinated and consistent implementation and enforcement across Members States; and advance simplification including the forthcoming digital omnibusto streamline overlapping duties. Maintaining stability of settled concepts (such as the reasonable consumer) and avoiding undefined constructs will preserve legal certainty, while co-regulatory tools (codes of conduct, sandboxes, best-practice exchanges) and investment in digital literacy and awareness can raise standards quickly without new hard-law layers. Adevinta stands ready to constructively contribute to the Commissions agenda to deliver tangible, meaningful benefits for European consumers while preserving legal certainty and consistency across the digital economy in the Single Market. Our full position paper is provided below.

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Meeting with Renate Nikolay (Deputy Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and Booking.com B.V. and

1 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on AI Act, DSA, enforcement cooperation, digital taxation.

Meeting with Veronika Vrecionová (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and OLX Global BV

17 Feb 2025 · Welfare of dogs and cats

Meeting with Rita Wezenbeek (Director Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

11 Feb 2025 · Opening Session: DSA roundtable discussions on online advertising (Article 46 DSA)

Meeting with Manuela Ripa (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

22 Jan 2025 · Welfare of Cats and Dogs

Meeting with Tilly Metz (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

14 Jan 2025 · Welfare of dogs and cats

Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament) and Booking.com B.V. and

2 Oct 2024 · Exchange between MEPs and European Tech companies

Response to Protection of Minors Guidelines

27 Sept 2024

Adevinta is a leading online classifieds group and champion for sustainable commerce across Europe and beyond. With more than 25 digital marketplaces across 10 countries, our portfolio spans consumer goods, mobility, real estate, holiday rentals and jobs. Together, our marketplaces attract more than 120 million users every month and over a million businesses. Our loved local brands include leboncoin in France, Germany's leading sites mobile.de and Kleinanzeigen, Marktplaats in the Netherlands, Fotocasa, Habitaclia and InfoJobs in Spain and Subito in Italy. We employ over 5,200 individuals globally to power our marketplaces. This includes more than 2,500 experts working in product and technology. Adevinta acknowledges that children face specific risks online and recognizes the industry's responsibility to help ensure their safety as users. Online platforms play an important role in building trust in the digital services used by users, particularly minors. Adevinta welcomes the European Commission's forthcoming Guidelines aimed at helping online platform providers implement appropriate and proportionate measures to ensure a high level of privacy, safety, and security for minors using their services. In the attached submission we focus in particular on: - The Guidelines for compliance with Art. 28 DSA should not entail the equivalence of the requirements for VLOPs under Art. 34 and 35 DSA. - Child risk assessment: the "5C" approach departs from the mandate of Art. 28 DSA - The Guidelines should take a flexible stance to the assessment of risks and potential mitigation measures and should catalogue existing best practices. - Harmonisation and regulatory intersectionality

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Meeting with Gints Freimanis (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and European Tech Alliance and

12 Sept 2024 · E-commerce

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

6 Mar 2024 · Platform regulation

Meeting with Didier Reynders (Commissioner) and

6 Mar 2024 · GDPR, consumers

Meeting with Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

16 Nov 2023 · Platform regulation

Meeting with Josianne Cutajar (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

29 Mar 2023 · Short Term-Rentals Regulation

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and

13 Mar 2023 · DMA and EU competition Law

Meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) and

8 Mar 2023 · To exchange on the role of online marketplaces in increasing the reuse of products as a key element of the circular economy

Meeting with Malte Gallée (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Jan 2023 · Second-hand goods in the ecodesign regulation

Meeting with Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

19 Oct 2022 · Competition policies and DMA

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

25 May 2022 · Adevinta presentation

Meeting with Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

12 May 2022 · Digital and innovation policy

Meeting with Gints Freimanis (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and Booking.com B.V. and

21 Jan 2022 · Discussion in light of the October OECD statement and the agreement on digital services taxes

Response to Digital Levy

11 Feb 2021

Please find attached our contribution.

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Meeting with Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and

9 Feb 2021 · DMA

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

2 Dec 2020 · Roundtable with platforms on DSA and DMA

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

26 Nov 2020 · DSA/DMA