The 11th European Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics was held from 5 to 9 September 1983 in the Kármán Auditorium of the University of Aachen, FRG. The Conference, organized by the Nuclear Research Centre Jülich, was attended by nearly 500 participants from over 30 countries, among them guest delegations from several non-European countries. The scientific material was presented in 24 invited papers, 36 short oral contributions, and about 250 posters spread over five poster sessions.The present review is necessarily limited and cannot give proper credit to each work presented at the Conference. According to the Conference programme, this report is divided into ten sections with emphasis on magnetic confinement and related problems and topics.