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In order to ensure the security of the TIR System, electronic controls were created to run in parallel with the security elements already specified in the TIR Convention. At the beginning of the 1990s, geopolitical changes, tremendous increase in trade volumes and the number of road hauliers performing TIR transports caused an increase in the risk of organized crime. Access to the TIR System was therefore strictly controlled, and the Administrative Committee for the TIR Convention adopted a Recommendation on 20 October 1995 which set out an electronic control system for TIR Carnets. This control system was included in the TIR Convention as Annex 10 on 12 August 2006, and is commonly referred to as the SafeTIR system. 











