This comes after the world governing body suspended all 36 referees and judges used at the Rio Olympics pending an investigation into a possible judging scandal.

Russia's Evgeny Tishchenko took the gold medal in the men’s heavyweight final after he was declared the winner in his clash with Kazakhstan's Vassily Levit, despite appearing to be on the back foot throughout.

Bantamweight world champion Michael Conlan of Ireland was involved in one of the most controversial contests of Rio 2016, claiming that amateur boxing "stinks from the core to the very top" after losing a quarter-final bout he appeared to have dominated against another Russian, Vladimir Nikitin.

An independent Swiss Timing electronic draw system will now be used to select the judges for each bout, AIBA have announced, with the Draw Commission replaced by a single official overseeing this technology.

All five of their scorecards will be used to determine the winner, instead of just three. 

Judges will also be placed on all four sides of the ring, while another change will see scores for each round only declared at the conclusion of a bout rather than at the ends of the rounds.

These changes will come into operation at all tournaments in 2017.

"Important changes" to streamline and enhance the competition calendar have also been approved by the Executive Committee.

A "greater emphasis" will be given to continental championships in the hope of reducing costs for national federations and providing more regular major competitions.

From 2019, the male and female World Championships will fall in the same calendar year, with the men's and women's Youth Championships scheduled for the year before.

It is hoped all of these changes will allow more professional boxers to compete at Tokyo 2020.

"Sport is always evolving, and AIBA continuously strives to introduce changes that will help maintain boxing’s position as one of the most exciting and popular sports in the world," said the governing body's President, C K Wu.

"Proposals that our experts put forward have been provisionally agreed upon and road-tested at the recent Youth World Championships in Saint Petersburg. 

"Following that operational success, these important changes can now be introduced to all competitions, and it is satisfying to see the efficiency with which the process has been conducted in such a short period of time."

This comes after a difficult year for AIBA in which their out-of-competition drug testing programme has also been criticised.

Reports in the New York Times then claimed that a study undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers - which has not been published - could not account for almost half of a $10 million (£8 million/€9 million) loan allocated in 2010 by the Baku-based Benkons MMC conglomerate.

AIBA plans to pursue criminal charges against its former executive director Ho Kim for an alleged connection to the funds "disappearing".

insidethegames has contacted AIBA to ask if these charges were discussed by the Executive Committee.