In the past decade, the demand for organic food has grown exponentially in the EU. The EU has set rigorous criteria for European farmers who want to have their products certified with the EU organic logo, but what rules apply to products imported from non-EU countries?

In the fourth episode of the Food for Europe mini-series on organics, Beate Huber, President of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Europe (FiBL Europe), discusses how the EU ensures that imported organic products meet the EU’s organic criteria and what challenges the EU faces when exporting its own organic products.