Currently ,lighting accounts for daily household consumption in Europe(except heating and water heaters)of 12%.European government hope the popularity of LED lighting, to achieve to reduce the proportion of household lighting energy consumption in 2050 to 6%target.

In 2000, the high-power LED and white light LED products appear to enter the outdoor lighting market. 2009, incandescent gradually withdraw from the European market, energy-efficient lighting products began to enter the European consumers to buy inventory, LED lighting products poured into the market. September 2012, the EU energy policy framework of the incandescent into the market, allowing only energy-efficient light bulbs into the market, including: A, B, and class C halogen lamps, LED1 lights and A Class compact fluorescent lamps (or low-energy light) wherein the halogen lamp from 2016 began to gradually withdraw from the market.

At present, the main raw vendors European LED lighting market, mainly from the semiconductor industry, these enterprises are mainly concentrated in Japan, the United States and South Korea, accounted for a larger market share is Nichia (Japan), Samsung LED (Korea), Osram Opto Semiconductors (US and Germany), Philips Lumileds (USA), followed by Seoul semiconductor

(South Korea), Cree (USA), LG Innotek (South Korea), Sharp (Japan), Everlight (Taiwan) and Toyoda Gosei (Japan).

The main raw vendors European LED lighting market, mainly from the semiconductor industry, these enterprises are mainly concentrated in Japan, the United States and South Korea, accounted for a larger market share is Nichia (Japan), Samsung LED (Korea), Osram Opto Semiconductors (US and Germany), Philips Lumileds (USA), followed by Seoul semiconductor (South Korea), Cree (USA), LG Innotek (South Korea), Sharp (Japan), Everlight (Taiwan) and Toyoda Gosei (Japan).

According to July 2015 statistics, the French energy and environment control department, an estimated 2016, LED lighting will account for 40% of the market, accounting for 60 percent in 2020, the different market segments situation there are differences: the general lighting market : 2011 9% 2016 45% 2020 70%; automotive lighting market: in 2011 13% more than in 2016 20% 2020 36%; backlight market: in 2011 57% 2016 96% 2020 100%.

From the industry point of view, in 2020 LED market will reach 64 billion euros (9 billion euros in 2011, in 2016 37 billion euros).