definiens: shall mean a committee which shall consist of six members, three to be appointed by Gen - Probe and three to be appointed by [COMPANY] . The Steering Committee shall supervise the performance of the program . Each Party to this Agreement may substitute its designees with another employee by providing written notice of the same . The Steering Committee can, if necessary and upon mutual consent, have employees and/or consultants of either Party attend its meetings to be consulted on certain issues . All decisions taken by the Steering Committee have to be agreed upon in mutual consent, provided, however, that any deadlocks shall be resolved by the decision of the Chief Executive Officer of Gen - Probe, on the conditions that ( a ) Gen - Probe shall reimburse [COMPANY] for any additional costs resulting from such CEO decision and shall adjust the Project Schedule to reflect to such CEO decision and ( b ) Gen - Probe shall relieve STRA TEC of its obligations under Sections 6.2 and 6.3 to the extent such CEO decision negatively impacts the reliability of the instrument