A large number of laws and regulations form the framework for the organic food industry and thus place it in the field of tension between consumer protection and over-regulation. The aim is to minimize both risk and effort in order to enable the further expansion of the organic food industry. The most comprehensive set of rules for the organic sector is the EU organic regulation, which is constantly being further developed. Organic law was subjected to a first major revision in 2008. Another revision began in 2014 and ended in 2018 with the resolution of a new basic organic regulation (VO 2018/848). The Basic Organic Ordinance must be supplemented by decisive rules by the end of 2021, for example with specific stipulations on stalls and runs for organic animals, with lists of approved organic resources or food ingredients, and more precise requirements for organic controls and organic imports from third countries. Only when the organic law with the outstanding rules has been supplemented and complete will the new organic regulation offer legal security for businesses and companies. As of 01/01/2022, the revised legal basis must be applied by all organic farms and organic inspection bodies. Until then, the current EU organic regulation (VO 834/2007) applies.