Abstract. The financial crisis has revealed a series of weaknesses and gaps of the supervision of the financial system. The conclusions of the different reports aiming to discover the causes of the crisis, that were prepared by organizations and authorities with prerogatives in this field, were followed by the initiative of reforming the architecture of the supervision at the EU level and of reviewing the regulatory framework related to the areas for which significant vulnerabilities had been identified. In order to avoid repeating such episodes, which represent a peril for the maintenance of the financial stability, the completion of these steps is required, through the efforts of the national supervisory authorities, which have to contribute to the enhancement of the effectiveness of their activity. Thus, the rigorous assessment of the supervisory activity’s effectiveness becomes necessary, which represents, in our opinion, a precondition for adopting those strategic decisions which would lead to the achievement of the desired objective, that is, to ensuring the stability of the financial system.

Keywords: effectiveness; efficiency; supervisory tools; assessment; corporate governance; stability.