Bloomberg reports that the European Central Bank said lenders should ask for feedback before naming senior executives, as the region’s top regulator takes a tougher tack on how banks are run.

The ECB will recommend that banks provide suitability assessments before making appointments, even if rules in their respective countries allow them to do so after the fact, said Andrea Enria, who leads the central bank’s supervisory board. 

“Internal governance is a key factor of banks’ ability to overcome the challenges ahead,” Enria told European lawmakers on Tuesday. It is also the area which turned up the most negative findings in the ECB’s annual evaluation of banks’ risk controls, he said. “Remediation is proceeding at slow pace, also due to current circumstances.”

The ECB will also pay greater attention to supervisory findings related to previous positions of candidates “as well as the specific needs of the banks” when assessing appointments and reappointments for boards, Enria said.