1998년 12월 개정 해양사고의 조사 및 심판에 관한 법률은 제4조 제2항에 “심판원은 제1항의 규정에 의한 해양사고의 원인을 규 명함에 있어서 해양사고의 발생에 2인 이상이 관련되어 있는 경우에는 각 관련자에 대하여 원인의 제공 정도를 밝힐 수 있다”는 규정을 신설 하여 선박충돌사고 원인제공비율 산정제도를 마련하고 1999년 2월에 이를 시행하였다. 그러나 선박충돌사고 원인제공비율 산정제도가 시행 된 지 12년이 지난 현재에도 원인제공비율 산정제도 시행과 관련하여 긍정적인 측면을 강조하는 찬성론과 이 제도를 폐지해야 한다는 반대 론이 대립하고 있는 상황이다 .따라서 이 논문에서는 선박충돌사고 원인제공비율 산정제도의 도입배경과 찬반론의 내용을 검토하고, 실증적 인 측면에서 원인제공비율 산정제도에 대한 이해관계자들의 만족도를 조사·분석한 후, 향후 원인제공비율 산정제도 개선을 위한 정책제언을 제시하고자 한다.

Causation in the Criminal Law is very important as it is a part of an element of a crime, especially result crime. Where an accused is charged with a result crime, it is necessary for the prosecution to prove that her act or omission caused the prohibited consequence.Traditionally speaking, there has been several theories to solve the problem of causation. One is a ‘sine qua non’ or ‘but for’ theory, which must be established that the consequence would not have occurred when it did ‘but for’ the accused’s conduct. But the sine qua non theory is said to be not sufficient for it’s ambit is too wide to establish the causation. So comes an ‘adequacy’ theory, which means that when a prohibited consequence occurs whether the relation between the cause in question and the consequence is adequate or reasonable. For a long time the adequacy theory has been the majority in theory and cases in Korea. But nowadays a new theory has appeared before 25 years ago from the German Criminal Law, which is called ‘objective attribution’ theory. It is getting and getting common here. Objective attribution theory means that a prohibited consequence comes from the cause in question.However, even though objective theory is popular among the scholars, adequacy theory is the majority in the criminal cases because of the Japanese criminal law theory. But it has been attacked by some scholars because the meaning of adequacy is somehow abstract or obscure. To overcome the problems of the adequacy theory, it must settle a new way of reasoning. As a one reasoning, there comes so-called ‘Fright and Flight’ theory in Anglo-American Criminal Law. It seems to solve the problems of adequacy theory.