Additional Listing

Aviva PLC
26 March 2003

                                   Aviva plc


Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange and the UK Listing
Authority for the blocklisting of 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 25 pence each to
be admitted to the Official List, these shares will rank pari passu with the
existing ordinary shares.

These ordinary shares are to be issued as a result of future exercise of options
under the following employee share option schemes:

Share Option Scheme                                                                           Number of Shares

Aviva Deferred Bonus Plan (Options)                                                                    100,000
Aviva Executive Share Option Plan (Unapproved OS)                                                       50,000
Aviva Long Term Incentive Plan                                                                          50,000
Aviva Executive Share Option Scheme (Delta Lloyd) 1997                                                 100,000
CGNU Executive Share Option Scheme (Unapproved)                                                        190,000
General Accident EXOPS (Unapproved)                                                                    300,000
The Commercial Union plc Executive Share Option Scheme                                                 190,000
(Unapproved)
The Commercial Union plc Netherlands Executive Share Option                                             20,000
Scheme
Total                                                                                                1,000,000




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