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143environment.The aim is to strengthen theintellectual, musical, motoric and socialdevelopment of the individual pupil.Lay judge (Lægdommer)Lay judges are persons who sit in oncriminal cases, either as jury members orlay assessors, without being legal judges.Licence fee (Licens)The licence fee is a charge paid by theowners of radios and television sets for theright to receive radio and TV programmes.The fee is used to finance TV/radioprogrammes broadcast by companies withpublic service* obligations, i.e. RadioDenmark (DR Radio and DR Television )and Danish TV2.The licence revenues areshared between DR and TV2 on apercentage basis fixed by the Ministry ofCulture (Kulturministeriet).Local council(Kommunalbestyrelse)At 1 January 2003, Denmark was dividedinto 271 municipalities (kommuner). Amunicipal authority is a public body thatundertakes various tasks in and on behalfof the local community. Under theprinciple of autonomous local government,municipal authorities have a widescope for independent action. Themunicipal authorities also carry out tasks– particularly in the social domain –within a more detailed statutoryframework.The municipalities are governed by alocal council elected for a four-year termby the local residents.Local newspapers (Distriktsblade)Local newspapers are weekly paperssponsored by advertising revenues anddistributed free of charge.Mortgage credit institute(Realkreditinstitut)A mortgage credit loan is one secured onreal estate. With such loans, you pledgeyour property as security. Mortgage creditinstitutes specialise in granting this typeof loan.They therefore function as a kindof specialist bank.GLOSSARY