中国海事诉讼时效“中断难”法律问题研究——兼析《海商法(修订征求意见稿)》相应修改方案

Study on Legal Issues of “Difficulties in Interruption of Maritime Limitation” in China:analysis of the Relevant Revised Scheme of Maritime Law (Revised Draft for Comments)

中国在海事诉讼时效中断规则的解释与适用方面存在许多实际困难,其不但源自于海事诉讼与民事诉讼时效中断规则之间内涵与外延的重大差异,更源自我国《海商法》对相应国际海事公约的不当借鉴。部分专家因此建议放弃海事时效中断制度,将其统一于民事时效中断制度。这不但同《海商法》与国际接轨的立法目的冲突,也存在许多操作性困难。故其修改时有必要借鉴海事公约项下的当事人延长时效等机制,建立有中国特色的海事诉讼时效中断机制。

There are many practical difficulties in the interpretation and application of the rules of limitation interruption in Maritime Code of PRC,which not only result from the significant differences in the connotation and denotation of these relative rules between Maritime Code of PRC and General Principles of the Civil Law of PRC,but also from the improper legal transplants of relevant rules of the Conventions on B/L.Some experts thus suggest to abandon the limitation interruption rules of Maritime Code,and unify it in the civil limitation interruption.But this not only deviate from the purpose of Maritime Code of PRC in line with international standards,but also has many operational difficulties.Therefore,it is necessary to permit the maritime parties to extend the maritime limitation period just as the maritime conventions recommend,thus to establish a maritime limitation interruption mechanism with Chinese characteristics。