(1) Under the authority of a Deputy Director, the Sub-Directorate of Pastures and Livestock Infrastructures is responsible for:

• the development and management of water resources for pastoral use;
• the development of pastoral water development projects;
• monitoring the development, operation and maintenance of water points for livestock;
• monitoring the application of regulations on pastoral hydraulics;
• the harmonization of the various interventions in the field of pastoral hydraulics;
• monitoring the rational management of pastoral water infrastructure and equipment;
• securing land tenure for pastoral activities, in conjunction with the administrations concerned;
• the development of pastoral development projects;
• support for the prevention and management of conflictual land situations in terms of pastures;
• the harmonization of the various interventions in the field of pastoral land development;
• monitoring the rational management of infrastructure, equipment and pastoral developments;
• support for the organization of animal movements in transhumance;
• the delimitation of grazing and transhumance areas;
• the development of cattle track and transhumance projects;
• the preparation and permanent updating of maps of fodder, animal and hydraulic resources and zoo-veterinary infrastructures;
• the operation of a livestock geographic information system;
• the design and production of standard livestock infrastructure plans.

(2) It shall include:

• The Pasture and Pastoral Land Development Service;
• The Pastoral Hydraulics Service;
• The Livestock Infrastructure Service;