Since 1937, BIPAR, the European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries, provides insurance agents and brokers with leadership through effective promotion and defence of their interests in European public affairs.
BIPAR's membership consists of 45 representative national associations of professional insurance agents and brokers from all over geographical Europe and the Mediterranean area. It represents about 80,000 self-employed and corporate professional insurance intermediaries in 31 countries who do business in virtually all the countries of the world and employ more than 250,000 people.
Founded in Paris in 1937 and established since 1989 in Brussels, BIPAR is recognised as the representative federation of European insurance intermediaries by the European institutions whose activities may impact the sector. It has privileged relationships with industry-related European and international federations and organisations.
BIPAR is also a founding member of the World Federation of Insurance Intermediaries (WFII), which comprises over 100 national associations from over 80 countries representing over 400,000 professional intermediaries.
In 2002, BIPAR set up the aisbl POI, Partners of Intermediaries, to promote the understanding of the realities of the Single European Insurance Market with insurance intermediaries, members of national associations in Europe and to facilitate the information exchange on European Public affairs issues between BIPAR and its national associations and their members, insurance intermediaries from all over Europe.