65-68 Title HAS THE SECOND COAL INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING STAGE BECOME IMMINENT? <...> 1 1 RAS Institute for Energy Studies, Moscow, 117186, Russian Federation Authors’ Information Plakitkin Iu.А., Doctor of Economic Sciences, Profeccor, RANS Member, Deputy Director, e-mail: uplak@mail.ru Plakitkina L.S., PhD (Engineering), RANS Corresponding Member, Coal and Peat Industry Development and Management Scientific Basis laboratory Head, e-mail: luplak@rambler.ru Abstract The paper substantiates, that the Russian coal industry has entered the zone of consistent energy recourses volumes and prices decline. <...> The second restructuring stage, providing for at least twofold increase of the materialized labor and industry assets efficiency and thus bringing them to the innovative level, is critical to prevent the industry collapse. <...> First – the “Coal Act” shall be supplemented by the new statements, associated with the need in the second stage of the industry restructuring, intended to upgrade the companies’ productive facilities. <...> Second – the “Program for the second restructuring stage” (referred to as Program) shall be prepared and enforced. <...> Currently the coal industry has market counterparties – coal companies, possessing both organizational and economic potentials. <...> Third –the norms, authorizing the coal companies to sign agency contracts (on a voluntary basis) with RF Government to implement the targets, established by the Program, shall be adopted within the framework of the “Coal Act” and the Law “On State Forecasting”. <...> In this case each systematically important company shall have a dedicated restructuring plan of the indicative nature; the company’s cumulative plans shall represent the state intentions, declared in the “Industry restructuring program” <...>