Spain is to reform its anti-doping legislation to improve the co-operation between the courts and sports disciplinary bodies, sports minister Jaime Lissavetzky has said.
It has been a contentious issue that the evidence uncovered in Spain's anti-doping probe in 2006, known as Operacion Puerto, has not been made available to sporting bodies to decide upon possible punishments for sportsmen and women.
The investigating judge has ruled there was insufficient evidence to prosecute for the only relevant offence in Spain at that time, which was for endangering public health.
"When doping cases arrive in the courts, sometimes they remain in a legal limbo," Lissavetzky was quoted as saying in sports daily Marca on Tuesday.
"We will look for formulas that will allow greater flexibility in these cases. This reform will be in line with the world anti-doping code."
