A total of 95 insurance companies and 70 insurance intermediaries from the EU want to operate in Bulgaria, The Financial Supervision Commission announced.

Most of the insurance companies are from Great Britain (32), followed by Ireland (13), Austria and Germany (9 each).Eight companies come from Italy and 7 from France.

54 of the intermediaries are from Great Britain, 4 from The Netherlands and there are three companies from Luxemburg and three from Sweden.

Only in the period 2 April 2007 – 8 May 2007 the Financial Supervision Commission has received the applications of 16 insurance companies wishing to operate in Bulgaria and has received information via their regulation bodies of the type of insurance they would like to offer.

In this one month period the Commission also received 12 applications from insurance brokers.