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The issue you raise about the specific procedures for claiming a Euromillions prize over 40,000 euros in Spain (practical steps at the bank, exact documentation, individual tax management, etc.) falls within the realm of private prize management and personalized tax advice. My role, however, is limited to the analysis and explanation of Spanish policy, institutional activity, regulations, and current social and economic affairs from that perspective, not to individual guidance on financial or tax procedures. Therefore, I cannot provide you with a detailed operational guide on how to claim your prize or how to manage your specific case with the Tax Agency.

Area in which I can help you

I can offer you political, regulatory, and media context on the treatment of lottery and gambling prizes in Spain, their fit within the regulations, and the public debate. For example, prizes managed by Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE) – including Euromillions in its Spanish version – are subject to a special tax on lottery prizes, with a tax-free minimum set at 40,000 euros and a 20% tax applied on the excess. This idea is explained in an accessible way in several analytical pieces on prize and gambling taxation published by the newspaper Demócrata in the context of other draws such as Bonoloto, La Primitiva, or the National Lottery, accessible in news like the Bonoloto of June 28, 2026 at Bonoloto June 28 or the analysis on La Primitiva and the Tax Agency at Primitiva and the Tax Agency.

I can also explain the general framework of deadlines and expiration as set out in the regulations of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado and recalled in informative pieces: in various Demócrata reports on Bonoloto, National Lottery, or Euromillions draws (for example, the results of June 9, 12, 16, 19, and 23, 2026 at Euromillions June 9, Euromillions June 12, Euromillions June 16, Euromillions June 19 and Euromillions June 23) it is reminded that SELAE prizes generally expire three months from the day after the draw. But turning that into individualized payment instructions exceeds my scope.

Why I cannot give you a step-by-step payment guide

Your question points to very specific and practical issues: which exact counter to use, what order to follow at the bank, how to identify co-holders of a prize, what to do with a damaged ticket, or how to integrate that income into your personal tax planning. That is financial-tax advice, proper to a management office, a tax consultancy, or the citizen services of SELAE and the Tax Agency themselves.

My design as an assistant is aimed at:

• Explaining the regulations and political debate on gambling, the safe gambling environment, or prize taxation (for example, the measures approved by the Government on safe gambling explained in the Moncloa press release at safe gambling environment measures).
• Summarizing and contextualizing news and public decisions on lotteries, prizes, and the Tax Agency, such as Demócrata’s reports on the exemption up to 40,000 euros in Christmas lottery prizes at exempt prizes up to 40,000 € or on the revenue impact of draws like El Niño, in news linked to Gestha studies such as El Niño draw and the Tax Agency (January 2) and El Niño draw and the Tax Agency (January 5).
• Reporting and analyzing judicial cases and controversies around prize claiming and ticket ownership, such as the cases about the lottery retailer in A Coruña covered in A Coruña lottery retailer (claiming without ticket) or trial of the retailer for 4.7 million Primitiva, where the application of regulated procedures is discussed.

On the other hand, I should not replace official channels (SELAE partner banks, lottery administrations, Tax Agency) nor a licensed professional when it comes to telling you which forms to sign, which accounts to designate, or how to document ownership of a specific Euromillions prize before the Tax Agency or the bank.

What kind of questions I can answer from here

If you are interested, I can help you understand:

• How the 40,000 euro tax-free minimum has evolved politically and what positions different parties have defended about raising or lowering it.
• What role prize tax revenue plays in the State’s fiscal and budgetary policy, based on economic analyses like those published by Demócrata in the economy and society section.
• How the Government and autonomous communities are addressing the regulation of gambling and betting from the perspective of public health, advertising, protection of minors, or safe gambling environment.

To resolve the strictly practical part of your case (exact procedure to claim your Euromillions prize and how it affects your tax return), it is appropriate to consult the detailed information from Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, your collaborating bank, and, if you consider it necessary, a specialized tax consultancy.

SELAE, as the public operator of state-wide lotteries, has the exclusive competence to organize, operate, and manage Euromillions in Spain: it sells and validates bets, sets participation conditions within Spanish territory, pays prizes, and resolves claims. All this is done within a state legal framework (headed by Law 13/2011 on gambling regulation and Royal Decree-Law 13/2010 establishing the company) and specific rules of the game approved and published in the BOE. Additionally, it coordinates its actions with the other European operators that make up Euromillions, participating in the common governance through the international company that manages it. Below are detailed those competencies and the regulatory framework that supports them.

SELAE as the exclusive operator of Euromillions in Spain

The State Society Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE) is a public company attached to the Ministry of Finance. Its purpose is to manage, operate, and market state-owned lotteries, including Bonoloto, La Primitiva, El Gordo de la Primitiva, National Lottery, La Quiniela, and also Euromillions, as recalled by the Government and specialized media. In the informational field, the newspaper Demócrata highlights this status by explaining that SELAE is the state operator of games like Euromillions in news about lottery retailers’ protests and sales regulation, for example in the piece about the lottery administration sector mobilization: lottery retailers’ protest.

At the European level, several Demócrata reports on draw results — such as Euromillions June 9, 2026, Euromillions June 12, 2026, Euromillions June 16, 2026, Euromillions June 19, 2026 and Euromillions June 23, 2026— detail that the game is jointly organized by the national operators of Spain (Loterías y Apuestas del Estado), France, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. Each manages the game in its country but shares jackpots and basic rules.

Specific competencies of SELAE regarding Euromillions

Specialized sources and the specific game regulations — such as the resolution approving the Euromillions rules and their updates, also available at SELAE (Euromillions regulations) — assign to SELAE in Spain, among others, these key functions:

• Validation and cancellation of bets: SELAE manages the sale of physical and online tickets and determines which bets are validly registered in its system. It can cancel bets in cases provided by the game regulations.
• Setting participation requirements: within the common European framework, it establishes and controls in Spain the access conditions (age of majority, authorized channels, participation prohibitions, etc.). The Court of Auditors has requested strengthening these rules in its report on SELAE prize management, assumed by the General Courts in the resolution of May 8, 2025.
• Prize and claim management: it is responsible for prize payment (smaller prizes at administrations; larger ones through the collaborating banking network) and for processing claims from Spanish players. The press and Demócrata itself emphasize that official results and payments must always be verified at SELAE or authorized administrations, also when reporting other draws like Bonoloto ( Bonoloto June 28).
• Internal control bodies: Euromillions rules require SELAE to establish a Superior Control Board to supervise bets validated in Spain and collaborate with control mechanisms of other countries.
• Material organization of draws: although the European draw is held centrally, SELAE organizes in Spain the scrutiny acts, result dissemination, and guarantees the presence of the General Intervention of the State Administration, according to the control agreements mentioned in the BOE (draw control).

Applicable legal framework

SELAE’s competence in Euromillions pivots on three regulatory levels:

First, Law 13/2011, on gambling regulation, which establishes the general sector regime, licenses, administrative control, and the reservation of state-wide lotteries to operators designated by law. This reservation is reiterated in numerous resolutions on other operators, such as ONCE, published in the BOE — for example, in the resolution of June 14, 2024 and in subsequent modifications of the instant lottery regulations (April 30, 2025, June 17, 2025 and October 6, 2025), where article 4 of the law is expressly cited.

Second, Royal Decree-Law 13/2010, of December 3, which transformed the former public entity into the current state commercial company SELAE, assigning it exclusive management of state-owned games. This position is comparable to other European public lottery operators, such as Française des Jeux, whose exclusive license was validated by the European Commission in State aid matters, as noted in the community press release about FDJ and the summary disseminated by the Basque Government (note on gambling).

Third, the specific Euromillions rules, which define the draw structure, bet price, jackpot distribution, and management rules by each national operator, published in the BOE and on SELAE’s website (game regulations). These rules are coordinated with European services and competition law, and with state supervision through the Directorate General for Gambling Regulation, which also regulates other areas such as the global betting market research service (resolution of June 28, 2024).

SELAE and the public and social dimension of Euromillions

Finally, SELAE not only manages Euromillions from a commercial and control perspective but also as an instrument of public and social financing. The Ministry of Finance highlights that part of Loterías’ resources are allocated to agreements with third sector entities such as Cáritas and the Spanish Association Against Cancer, recorded in press releases agreement with Cáritas and agreement with AECC, also disseminated by the Ministry itself (Finance note). This aspect explains why the legislator reserves SELAE a singular status as a public operator, with exclusive competencies over Euromillions and other state lotteries.

In Spain, international or foreign-operator lottery and gambling games are mainly governed by Law 13/2011, on gambling regulation, developed by several royal decrees and ministerial orders that set licenses, technical requirements, and marketing channels, including online sales. This law expressly incorporates “cross-border gambling activities” and requires that any operator, even if authorized in another State of the European Economic Area, submit to the Spanish regime if offering gambling to residents in Spain. Adaptation to the European Union is done through transposition laws and references to European regulations, and through administrative cooperation and infringement control mechanisms “with a dimension in the European Union.”

Basic applicable regulations

The system’s core is Law 13/2011, on gambling regulation. Of particular interest are:

• It includes not only state lotteries and bets but also “cross-border gambling activities, that is, those carried out by natural or legal persons based outside Spain who organize or offer gambling activities to residents in Spain”.
• It establishes that licenses granted by other States are not valid in Spain; operators from the European Economic Area must comply with Spanish requirements, although a procedure is foreseen to validate documentation already submitted in their country of origin.
• It obliges operators with a state license to have a website under the “.es” domain and to redirect all connections from Spanish territory or Spanish user accounts to that domain.
• It foresees that the operators’ Central Gaming Unit can be monitored from Spanish territory, even if the main infrastructure is outside Spain.

This law has been updated by Law 23/2022, which strengthens responsible gambling and creates the Global Betting Market Research Service as a cooperation network to fight fraud and manipulation in sports betting, an instrument designed to share information with other actors and authorities.

Regulatory development: licenses, technical aspects, and online

Law 13/2011 is developed, among other norms, through:

• Royal Decree 1613/2011, on technical requirements for gambling activities (RD 1613/2011), which regulates the Central Gaming Unit, online gaming platforms, payment gateways, and control and inspection systems, key for monitoring foreign operators operating in Spain via the internet.
• Royal Decree 1614/2011, on licenses, authorizations, and registers (RD 1614/2011), which specifies operators’ access to the Spanish market, financial guarantees, and registers of licenses and persons linked to operators.
• Orders approving the terms for general gaming licenses (for example, Order EHA/3124/2011, Order HAP/1995/2014, and Order HFP/1227/2017), which specify requirements for companies (including foreign ones) to obtain a license in Spain.

Regarding the online channel, before Law 13/2011, the sale of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado products via the internet was already authorized through Order EHA/2566/2005. This norm requires, among other things, that the internet validation operation be configured so that participation affects only the national territory, precisely to avoid uncontrolled “cross-border bets”.

Example of a European lottery: Euromillions

A clear example of an international lottery game regulated in Spain is the common European game Euromillions. Its rules in the Spanish scope are collected in the Resolution of January 21, 2009, which explains that:

• It is a “common European game” coordinated among different lottery managing institutions in Europe, but each national operator markets it in its own territorial scope with its procedural rules.
• Some rules (on prize structure, cycles, “Super Draws,” etc.) are common to all participating countries, while issues such as validation, claims, or prize expiration are subject to each national operator’s regulation.

Additionally, other lottery products such as those of ONCE are regulated by specific resolutions issued “in accordance with” Law 13/2011, such as the Active Game Regulation of ONCE (resolution of April 4, 2023) or the Instant Ticket Lottery (another resolution of April 4, 2023, with its successive modifications).

Adaptation to European Union Law

Adaptation to the European framework in gambling matters is not done through a specific “lotteries” directive but by integrating several European obligations into sectoral regulations:

• Law 23/2022 relies on the transposition of consumer directives and on Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 on cooperation in consumer protection, providing that the General Secretariat of Consumption is competent for “generalized infringements with a dimension in the European Union” and for infringements committed online when the responsible party is outside the EU.
• Administrative cooperation mechanisms are strengthened, allowing suspension of sanctioning procedures while coordinating with authorities of other autonomous communities or the European Union.
• Law 13/2011 itself incorporates the doctrine of the EU Court of Justice on freedom to provide services, justifying a “scaled” and highly regulated offer model to protect the consumer and public order.

In summary, Spain maintains a model in which gambling remains strongly intervened by the State but opens to international operators and products under the condition of fully submitting to the internal regime (licenses, “.es” domain, technical supervision, consumer and anti-money laundering regulations), while integrating the demands and cooperation networks of the European Union.