Preliminary issues and basic considerations / Heinrich Wohlmeyer -- The present legal basis of the world trade system / Richard Senti -- The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and basic aspects of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures / Katrin Forgó -- The producer support estimate and the aggregate measure of support: suitable gauges for evaluating agricultural and trade policy? / Heinrich Wohlmeyer -- A few remarks on trade theory / Franz Weiss -- Free trade and its effects: some critical comments / Sigrid Stagl.

International trade on the rise: a brief introduction / Sigrid Stagl and Tobias Reichert -- Sustainability: a challenge for future economic and social policy / Theodor Quendler and Bernd Schuh -- Agriculture, trade and the environment / Franz Weiss -- The special case of agriculture / Bernd Schuh -- Reasons for measures aimed at the stabilisation of production and markets in the agricultural sector ; Important factors influencing future scenarios regarding food supplies, world population and environment / Theodore Quendler Environmental issues and their significance for agriculture and the food industry / Theodor Quendler and Tobias Reichert.