A year of challenge In of market, economic and political developments, which present challenges to SSE’s business, including: − the outcome of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU in June 2016 and the political and economic events that have followed or may be set to follow; − the decision in June 2016 by the UK Government to accept the fifth carbon budget for 2028-32; and − the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Final Decision on Remedies for the GB energy market was also published in June 2016.