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Currently, there is no specific regulation in progress within the European Union for transnational lotteries like EuroDreams: there is no legislative proposal from the Commission or the European Parliament, nor a green paper or recent public consultation dedicated to pan-European lotteries. The EU's policy on gambling remains one of non-harmonization: the organization of lotteries is the responsibility of each Member State, based on national authorization systems. Lotteries like EuroDreams therefore operate through agreements between national public operators (SELAE in Spain, etc.), each under its own internal law. Recent case law from the CJEU precisely reinforces this model, allowing States to restrict or prohibit cross-border gambling offers even if the operator is licensed in another EU country.

General EU framework on gambling

The fundamental reference remains the Commission Communication of 23 October 2012, "Towards a comprehensive European framework for online gambling," which analyzed risks (fraud, consumer protection, sports integrity) but did not propose a harmonization directive. This Communication is still cited in recent Spanish documents, such as the resolution of the Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling published in the Official State Gazette in 2024 regarding the market research service for betting (resolution of 28 June 2024). The European Parliament also expressed its position in 2013 on match-fixing and corruption in sport, without resulting in substantive legislation on lotteries.

Since then, EU institutions have focused their actions on collateral areas: State aid, sports integrity, data protection, or anti-money laundering, but not on creating a “Euro-framework” for lotteries. An example is the Commission's decision on the exclusive rights of Française des Jeux in France, analyzed as State aid but without questioning France's maintenance of a lottery monopoly model (European Commission press release and its echo in Basque Government note).

Recent CJEU case law

The line of the Court of Justice of the EU is consistent with this non-harmonization. The CJEU has reiterated that lotteries and gambling are services subject to free provision, but that States have a wide margin of appreciation to restrict them for reasons of public order, health, or consumer protection. In a judgment of 16 April 2026 (case C‑440/23), the Court declared that Union law does not oppose national rules prohibiting certain online gambling, including bets on lottery draws, to channel gambling towards controlled circuits, even if the operator is licensed in another Member State (summary of the CJEU ruling).

Such rulings support the idea, also defended by the European Lotteries association in a 2010 resolution, that an operator authorized in one country is not automatically legal in another and that any remote gambling offer directed at consumers in another State without permission must be considered illegal (European Lotteries resolution).

Absence of new legislative initiatives on pan-European lotteries

In recent years, there is no record of:

• Any proposal for a regulation or directive from the European Commission dedicated to transnational lotteries or draws.
• Any recent Green or White Paper on lotteries or online gambling (beyond the 2012 Communication).
• Any specific public consultation on pan-European lotteries in the 2024‑2026 period; open consultations have focused on banking, capital markets, or mergers (consultation on banking market risk, competition reform, etc.).

In the European Parliament, the only recent mention of gambling in a general regulatory context is the debate on new own resources for the EU, where the possibility of a European tax on online gambling is cited as a source of budget revenue, without developing a substantive regime on how such games should be organized (“EP Today” note).

Case of Spain and articulation with draws like EuroDreams

In the absence of a sectoral European rule, each Member State regulates its own market. In Spain, the basis is the Law 13/2011, on gambling regulation, which reserves state lotteries to designated public operators and establishes the licensing regime for online gambling (Law 13/2011). Law 3/2022 introduces adjustments, including mechanisms to validate documentation from operators of the European Economic Area in certain cases (Law 3/2022).

EuroDreams, like Euromillions or Eurojackpot, is presented in the Spanish press as a European-wide draw organized by national operators coordinated by Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, but fully subject to Spanish regulations when marketed in Spain, as the newspaper Demócrata recalls in its gambling pieces (information on EuroDreams, article on Euromillions).

Technical cooperation, not regulatory harmonization

Where there is European movement is in administrative and supervisory cooperation, not in creating a single framework for draws. Spain, for example, has allied with eight countries to control predictive betting markets during major sporting events (note from the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and 2030 Agenda), and has opened national consultations to strengthen its own Gambling Law (consultation on the Gambling Regulation Law).

In parallel, other European fronts advance but tangentially to gambling: data protection (application of the GDPR to player data processing, according to the French CNIL: CNIL‑ANJ guide), Commission institutional campaigns with promotional draws governed by national legal bases (legal bases for Europe Day 2026, bases for Europe Day 2025) or Council of Europe initiatives on gambling risks for youth (article on Council of Europe).

In summary, the processing status is static: there is no open European file to regulate draws like EuroDreams in a unified way, and everything points to the EU continuing in the short term to leave this matter in the hands of Member States, limiting itself to coordinating transversal aspects (data, money laundering, sports integrity) and, eventually, studying a possible own resource on online gambling.

Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE) does not have a generic “blank check” to create international lotteries, but acts as a reserved state operator that can integrate into common games with other countries when expressly agreed and regulated. Law 13/2011 reserves state-level lotteries to designated public operators and subjects SELAE to intense public control, while cases like Euromillions show how cooperation with other European operators is practically articulated. Additionally, other regulations empower it to sign contracts and agreements necessary to operate certain games, always within the Spanish legal framework and international treaties incorporated into domestic law. Based on this, its competences and limits can be distinguished.

1. Basic legal framework of SELAE

The starting point is Law 13/2011, on gambling regulation, which:

• Exclusively reserves “the activity of state-level lottery games” in favor of the State Society Loterías y Apuestas del Estado and ONCE, keeping SELAE under “a regime of public control of its activity,” according to its preamble and specific provisions on reserved operators (Law 13/2011).
• Designates SELAE as one of the operators for marketing lotteries regulated by that law, with authorization registered in the General Gambling License Registry for advertising purposes.
• Specifies that the taxation of state-level activities is understood “without prejudice […] to what is provided in Treaties or International Conventions that have become part of the internal legal system,” framing legally the possible international dimension of certain games.

Alongside this general law, the practical articulation of competences in shared games with other countries is clearly seen in the regulation of Euromillions and of horse racing bets:

• Euromillions is regulated by resolutions of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, including the Resolution of 6 February 2004 and its later consolidation and modification in 2009 (Resolution of 21 January 2009).
• National external horse racing bets are reestablished and attributed to Loterías y Apuestas del Estado by Royal Decree 716/2005.

2. Organization and marketing in Spain of “international” draws

Law 13/2011 does not contain a specific chapter on “international draws,” but:

• Reserves to SELAE the marketing of state-level lotteries, regardless of the origin of the game, as long as it is offered in Spain under that state lottery regime.
• Allows taxation and legal regime to adapt to international agreements that form part of the internal legal system, opening the door to common games with other States, without configuring an autonomous power of SELAE outside that framework.

In practice, when it comes to a common European game like Euromillions, the resolutions state that the rules approved by Loterías y Apuestas del Estado “are exclusively applicable to the management carried out by Loterías y Apuestas del Estado within its territorial scope” and “to the management at the national level, which corresponds to Loterías y Apuestas del Estado,” even if it is a “common European game” coordinated with other operators (Resolution 6/2/2004, Resolution 21/1/2009).

3. Participation in games jointly organized with other operators

The Euromillions resolutions explain the cooperation model:

• The game arises from a common project among various “Lottery Managing Institutions in Europe” (La Française des Jeux, Camelot, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, etc.).
• Certain rules (for example, on prize categories, minimum jackpot, cycles, allocation caps) are “common rules” agreed upon by all participating lotteries.
• Other matters (ticket validation, claims, prize payment, etc.) are subject to the internal rules of each operator in its territory.

In this scheme, SELAE's competence is not to organize an international draw by itself, but to manage and market in Spain a common European game, applying the rules agreed with the other operators, but under its own national regulations for the internal management part.

4. Cross-border agreements and contracts

Royal Decree 716/2005 illustrates SELAE's capacity to formalize agreements when a specific competence is attributed. By authorizing it to operate national external horse racing bets, it establishes that Loterías y Apuestas del Estado may “enter into the contracts and agreements necessary” to select races from different racecourses as support and organize the bet. Although this example refers to a national scope, the regulatory technique is the same that could be used to enable specific international agreements: specific legal or regulatory empowerment plus development by SELAE resolutions.

5. Limits and administrative controls

The essential limits derived from the regulations are:

• SELAE is a reserved operator subject to public control; the reservation of state-level lotteries is based on preventing fraud, crime, and harmful effects of gambling on consumers (Law 13/2011).
• Any expansion of its activity to new products (including common European games) is articulated through specific rules (royal decrees, orders, or resolutions) that define the game's object, participation conditions, prizes, and, if applicable, agreements with other operators.
• The international dimension is conditioned by treaties and international agreements incorporated into domestic law, as well as by national gambling and taxation legislation on the “Gambling Activities Tax.”

In summary, SELAE can manage and market in Spain games with an international basis when a specific rule configures it as such (Euromillions is the paradigmatic example), can sign the contracts and agreements necessary for that operation, and is always subject to the framework of Law 13/2011 and the rest of the legal system, without the consulted regulations configuring an open power to organize international draws outside these specific authorizations.

To claim a EuroDreams prize in Spain, the participant must be a natural person who has participated legally (not a minor nor disqualified from gambling), prove their identity and ownership of the ticket or gaming account, and submit to anti-money laundering controls when the amount is significant. Prize payment is subject to the special tax on prizes from certain lotteries and bets, withheld at the time of collection. Additionally, there are expiration deadlines and operational limits that require channeling higher prizes through financial institutions, with enhanced identification, according to sectoral gambling and anti-money laundering regulations. The specific details (exact deadline, limits at the administration and bank) are set in the specific regulations of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado games, which rely on the general state framework.

1. Basic applicable legal framework

The legal requirements are mainly based on:

• Law 13/2011, on gambling regulation, which defines state-level lotteries, protects participants, and prohibits minors and disqualified persons from gambling (article prohibiting participation of minors and certain groups), according to Law 13/2011.
• Its regulatory development for licenses and relations with participants, Royal Decree 1614/2011, which regulates gaming contracts, user registries, gaming accounts, and prize payments in lotteries.
• Anti-money laundering regulations: Law 10/2010 and its Regulation approved by Royal Decree 304/2014, which require identifying persons involved in operations with reliable documents and applying enhanced due diligence above certain amounts (e.g., occasional operations over 15,000 euros).
• Tax regulations creating and developing the special tax on prizes from certain lotteries and bets, such as Royal Decree-law 20/2011, Law 11/2021 (which modifies Law 13/2011 on gambling), and the order approving withholding and self-assessment forms 230 and 136, Order HAP/70/2013.

2. Personal requirements of the participant

According to Law 13/2011, participation in state-level games is prohibited for:

• Minors and legally incapacitated persons.
• Persons registered in the General Registry of Gambling Access Prohibitions or with access prohibited by final judicial resolution.
• Certain groups professionally linked to the gambling operator or event (e.g., in sports betting), though this is less directly relevant in a passive lottery like EuroDreams.

Therefore, only those legally allowed to participate in the draw can be prize beneficiaries. In practice, claiming requires the winner to be of legal age and to provide reliable identification.

3. Identification and anti-money laundering controls

Law 10/2010 obliges system subjects (credit institutions, payment entities, and other financial intermediaries involved in prize payments) to:

• Identify and verify the identity of natural persons involved in the operation before executing it, using reliable documents (valid DNI, NIE, or passport), as developed in the 2014 Regulation.
• Also identify the beneficial owner when payment may be made on behalf of third parties, gathering information on whether the client acts on their own or another's behalf.
• Apply enhanced due diligence and additional information when certain occasional operation thresholds are exceeded, cited in the Regulation for operations over 15,000 euros.

This means that for medium and high prizes, payment is usually channeled through banks, which verify identity, account ownership, and may request additional documentation if risks are detected.

4. Payment channels, limits, and expiration

Royal Decree 1614/2011 indicates that lottery regulation includes management conditions, participants' rights, and claim procedures, as well as fraud and money laundering prevention measures. Based on this, specific orders and resolutions of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado set:

• Maximum amounts payable at a lottery administration or point of sale (small and medium prizes).
• The obligation to channel high-value prizes to collaborating credit institutions, where payment is made with enhanced identification.
• The expiration period for the right to claim the prize and the channels to submit claims within that period.

In the specific case of EuroDreams, these limits and deadlines are included in the product regulation approved by the State Society of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado and in agreements with financial entities, but the general normative sources consulted do not detail the exact number of days or monetary limits. No further information on these specific thresholds is available in the consulted sources.

5. Taxation and withholding on payment

EuroDreams prizes fall under the special tax on prizes from certain lotteries and bets, developed, among others, by Royal Decree-law 20/2011 and orders like Order HAP/70/2013, which regulate withholding forms.

Practically:

• The operator or financial entity directly applies the corresponding withholding of the special tax at the time of prize payment.
• The winner receives the net amount, without needing to file a self-assessment for that tax in most ordinary cases.
• Prize and withholding information is communicated to the Tax Agency through official forms (230, 270, and, if applicable, 136), according to form regulations and Order on form 270.

The treatment of these prizes in personal income tax and the specific exemption threshold are determined by current tax legislation, partly modified by Law 11/2021, but updated specific figures are not detailed in the sources handled.

6. Summary for a resident claiming EuroDreams

In summary, a resident in Spain who wins a EuroDreams prize must:

• Have participated legally (be of legal age and not disqualified from gambling).
• Present the valid ticket or proof or, if applicable, have a recognized gaming account where the prize is recorded.
• Prove their identity with a valid document and accept, for high prizes, that payment is made through a financial institution with anti-money laundering controls according to Law 10/2010 and Royal Decree 304/2014.
• Claim within the expiration period established by EuroDreams game regulations.
• Receive the prize already subject to tax withholding of the special tax on lottery and betting prizes.

Specific details (expiration days, payment thresholds at administration or bank, exact exemption threshold, or tax rate) should be consulted in the specific EuroDreams regulations and current tax legislation, as they are not numerically included in the general gambling provisions analyzed.