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 or disposition of official agency business, except that the term
   does not include deliberations to decide whether to announce a meeting with
   less than seven days notice, or 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;  64 FR 2149 , Jan. 13, 1999]