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However, the number of companies that asked to be removed from the registry rose by 550% in the same interval, to 118,340.
The number of voluntary dissolutions dropped 54.44% in the first half this year compared to the same interval of 2009, to 5,041 from 11,064.
Over 58,000 new companies were registered between January and June this year, as opposed to 60,800 new companies registered in the first half of 2009, bringing the total number of active local economic agents to 900,000.