The Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura is an autonomous organism of the State General Administration, assigned, for administrative effects, to the Ministry to the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
It is an entity of public law with its own jurisdiction possessing the autonomy to govern and self administer its interests; to acquire and to alienate the goods and rights that can constitute self patrimony; to contract, oblige and to act in tribunals, all gender of actions, without further limitations than those imposed by the law. The acts and resolutions are the end point for the administrative road. .
The structure and functions as well as the economic and patrimonial regime are defined in the Royal Decree 1/2001 in which the Water Law is passed.