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Cape Town - SANZAR will review its policy on the recruitment of overseas players at the end of the year.
This comes after criticism of the existing policy in recent weeks.
The Stormers included Saracens' Schalk Brits in their line-up for their Super Rugby semi-final against the Crusaders at Newlands, even though he did not play a single round robin match for the Cape based franchise.
The Sharks also hit the headlines when they signed French international Frederic Michalak to combat their injury woes.
The Stormers claimed that Brits was needed because of injuries to loose forwards Pieter Louw, Duane Vermuelen and Siya Kolisi, while the Sharks faced a crisis at scrumhalf, but mainly used Michalak at flyhalf.
This forced SANZAR to accept that there may be reason to tighten regulations.
SANZAR chief executive Greg Peters told the website ESPNscrum that the governing body will review its policy on the recruitment of overseas players at the end of 2011.
"We will have a look at this at the end of the season," said Peters. "We review a lot of things and maybe we could look at players being in the round robin for a minimum number of games.
"Or we could insist that a player has to be registered with a franchise by a certain date - say, May 1, just as we do in the ITM Cup. I'm not saying that is what SANZAR will do but it is the sort of thing we could look at."
This comes after criticism of the existing policy in recent weeks.
The Stormers included Saracens' Schalk Brits in their line-up for their Super Rugby semi-final against the Crusaders at Newlands, even though he did not play a single round robin match for the Cape based franchise.
The Sharks also hit the headlines when they signed French international Frederic Michalak to combat their injury woes.
The Stormers claimed that Brits was needed because of injuries to loose forwards Pieter Louw, Duane Vermuelen and Siya Kolisi, while the Sharks faced a crisis at scrumhalf, but mainly used Michalak at flyhalf.
This forced SANZAR to accept that there may be reason to tighten regulations.
SANZAR chief executive Greg Peters told the website ESPNscrum that the governing body will review its policy on the recruitment of overseas players at the end of 2011.
"We will have a look at this at the end of the season," said Peters. "We review a lot of things and maybe we could look at players being in the round robin for a minimum number of games.
"Or we could insist that a player has to be registered with a franchise by a certain date - say, May 1, just as we do in the ITM Cup. I'm not saying that is what SANZAR will do but it is the sort of thing we could look at."
