1. The International Commission for the Southeast Atlantic Fisheries at its Midterm Extraordinary Meeting held in Madrid in May, 1990, decided to call a Conference of Plenipotentiaries to adopt a Protocol of Termination for the Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the Southeast Atlantic.
2. The Conference of Plenipotentiaries met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on l9th July 1990.
3. The Governments of sixteen Contracting Parties to the Convention were represented: Republic of Angola, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Republic of South Africa, Spain and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
4. The Conference elected Mr. Luis de Andrés (First Vice-Chairman of the Commission) as President.
5. The Conference had before it a draft Protocol of Termination prepared by the International Commission for the Southeast Atlantic Fisheries.
6. On the basis of its deliberations, the Conference adopted the Protocol which is reproduced in the Annex hereto.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the following representatives have signed this Final Act:
For the REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA: Kamu de Almeida
For BULGARIA: Boyka Ivanova Nicheva
For CUBA: Manuel Basabe del Val
For FRANCE: Henri Benoit de Coignac
For the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: Karl Heinz Ehlerf
For the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: Georg Trefftz
For ISRAEL: Yehuda Atsmony
For ITALY: Armando Sanguini
For JAPAN: Hirotsugu Amamiya
For the REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Myung Kwan Chang
For POLAND: Wojciech Woicki
For PORTUGAL: João de Valera
For ROMANIA: Pavel Moldoveanu
For the REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: François Van der Merwe
For SPAIN: Camilo Villarino
For the UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS: Konstantine Mozel
DONE AT Madrid, this nineteenth day of July one thousand nine hundred and ninety, in a single copy in the English, French and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic. The original texts shall be deposited in the archives of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
ANNEX TO THE FINAL ACT
The Contracting Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the Southeast Atlantic concluded in Rome on 23rd October 1969, which entered into force on 24th October 1971;
Recognizing that important events have taken place which influence the objectives of the Convention:
Considering that these events have reduced the practical effect of the Convention to a degree which is incompatible with the pursual of its activities;
Bearing in mind the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties concluded at Vienna on 23rd May 1969 and, in particular, Article 54 of that Convention entitled "Termination of or withdrawal from a treaty under its provisions or by consent of the parties" which provides that:
"The termination of a treaty or the withdrawal of a party may take place:
(b) At any time by consent of all the parties after consultation with the other contracting States."
Have agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I
The Convention shall terminate when all Contracting Parties have deposited an instrument of acceptance of the Protocol with the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
ARTICLE II
Instruments of acceptance of this Protocol shall be deposited with the DirectorGeneral of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who shall inform the Governments of the Contracting Parties of the deposit thereof and the entry into force of this Protocol.
ARTICLE III
This Protocol shall be open for signature by the Government of any State represented at the Conference which adopted the Protocol, or by the Government of any other State which is a member of the International Commission for the Southeast Atlantic Fisheries, until the thirtieth of November one thousand nine hundred and ninety.
DONE AT Madrid, this nineteenth day of July one thousand nine hundred and ninety, in a single copy in the English, French and Spanish languages, each version being equally authoritative.