The Third International Symposium on Toroidal Plasma Confinement was held at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik at Garching near Munich in the Federal Republic of Germany from 26 to 30 March 1973. This Symposium, which was sponsored by the European Physical Society, was the third of a series, the first of which was held at Princeton in 1966 and the second at Dubna in 1969.