Sec. 0.601  Definitions.

    For purposes of this section:
    (a) The term agency means:
    (1) The Commission,
    (2) A board of Commissioners (see Sec. 0.212),
    (3) The Telecommunications Committee (see Sec. 0.215), and
    (4) Any other group of Commissioners hereafter established by the 
Commission on a continuing or ad hoc basis and authorized to act on 
behalf of the Commission.
    (b) The term meeting means the deliberations among a quorum of the 
Commission, a Board of Commissioners, or a quorum of a committee of 
Commissioners, where such deliberations determine or result in the joint 
conduct of disposition of official agency business, except that the term 
does not include deliberations to decide whether a meeting should be 
open or closed. (The term includes conference telephone calls, but does 
not include the separate consideration of Commission business by 
Commissioners.) For purposes of this subpart each item on the agenda of 
a meeting is considered a meeting or a portion of a meeting.
[ 42 FR 12867 , Mar. 7, 1977, as amended at  48 FR 56391 , Dec. 21, 1983]