At a session held on January 11, 2006, the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) adopted the following normative acts:

1. The Commission adopted at first reading a Draft Ordinance on the documents, on the procedure for their drawing up, and on advising in the case of occurrence of insurance events involving motor vehicles.

The necessity for adoption of the Ordinance is subject to a Resolution of the Council of Ministers dated December 1, 2005 on amending the methodology used to report the percentage of motor vehicles without Third Party Liability Insurance. In compliance with the shared competencies of the Ministry of Interior and the FSC provided for under the law, the Draft Ordinance shall be forwarded to the Minister of the Interior in order to be approved, and upon obtaining his approval; it shall be published on the FSC’s website for all interested parties’ information.

The Draft Ordinance provides for the exchange of information between the National Police Service Directorate – Ministry of Interior and the Financial Supervision Commission on the occasion of assessment of the coverage of the compulsory Third Party Liability Insurance. It is provided that the National Police Service Directorate – Ministry of Interior shall submit to the FSC monthly by the 20th of each month information on the total number of road accidents registered within the country’s territory and by regions and the number of road accidents registered involving guilty participation of a driver of a motor vehicle non-insured under the Third Party Liability Insurance. On its own part, the FSC shall submit to the National Police Service Directorate – Ministry of Interior monthly by the 20th of each month information on the vehicles having concluded the Third Party Liability Insurance and the number of damages paid by the Guarantee Fund through the fault of owners of motor vehicles without the Third Party Liability Insurance. The insurance coverage shall be calculated as a proportion of the total number of registered road accidents to the number of road accidents involving motor vehicles without the Third Party Liability Insurance.

According to the Draft, it is provided that upon attending a road accident the police authorities shall inspect the insurance policies under the Third Party Liability of the motor vehicles’ drivers participated into the event, and shall establish the insurers issued the policy. Within a ten-day period, the head of the Ministry of Interior’s unit that has investigated the accident shall forward a copy of the record drawn up to the insurer of the driver who has caused the accident.

2. The Commission adopted at first reading a Draft Ordinance on amending Ordinance No. 21 on the own funds and solvency margin of insurers and health insurance companies.
Under the Draft Ordinance, the European directives related to the requirements to the solvency margin of insurers are fully transposed into our legislation.

The Draft Ordinance shall be published on the FSC’s website and shall be forwarded to the Association of Bulgarian Insurers and to the Association of Licensed Voluntary Health Insurance Companies in order to be co-ordinated.

3. The Commission adopted at first reading a Draft Ordinance on the procedure and the methodology of forming the insurers’ technical reserves and of the health insurance reserves.
Under the Draft Ordinance proposed, the Ordinance on the procedure and the methodology of forming the insurance and health insurance reserves (adopted by the Council of Ministers by Decree No. 13 dated January 24, 2003 and promulgated, SG, Issue No. 10 of February 4, 2003) shall be invalidated, where at the same time the Draft Ordinance aligns the requirements set to the technical reserves in compliance with the spirit and concept provided for under the Insurance Code, and namely:
– part of the various approvals of parameters upon setting up the technical reserves are abolished;
– specific limitations related to the setting up of and disposal with the reserve fund are amended,
– the obligation to distribute at least 90 per cent of the income realized from investments into the accounts of the life-insured persons is abolished. The income’s distribution shall be based on the individual policies of the insurers and health insurance companies on a market principle.

4. The Commission adopted an Amendment Ordinance to Ordinance No. 3 dated September 24, 2003 on the terms and procedures for switching participation and transferring the amounts accrued in an insured person’s individual account from one supplementary pension fund to another fund of the same type, managed by another pension insurance company.
The amendments introduced into the Ordinance result from the Tax Insurance Procedure Code’s entry into force and the transfer of the functions on collecting and distributing the installments on additional compulsory pension insurance from the National Social Insurance Institute (NSSI) to the National Revenue Agency.
Under the Ordinance, the texts related to obligations of the NSSI on accepting the statements of switching participation from one obligatory pension fund to another respective fund and subsequent depositing of the insurance installments in connection with the participation amended, which are to be undertaken by the National Revenue Agency are amended.
The Ordinance is to be published in the State Gazette.