Covariant density functional NL3, ten years after

We propose a modification of the effective force NL3, which presents the very succesful parameterization for the Lagrangian of the Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) theory. The new effective force with the name NL3* has phenomenological para- meters. It improves the ground state properties of many nuclei and simultaneously provides an excellent description of excited states with collective character in sphe- rical and axially deformed nuclei.