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For ONCE to be able to organize draws such as the Daily Coupon, it is not enough to be a social interest entity: it requires a specific legal authorization as a state-level lottery operator and must comply with a set of material requirements, public control, and player protection. This framework is built by combining the Gaming Law, ONCE's own royal decrees, a General Agreement between the State and ONCE, and periodic resolutions published in the BOE.

1. General framework for state-level gaming

The Law 13/2011, on gaming regulation reserves state-level lotteries to two operators designated by the law itself. Its first additional provision expressly designates ONCE as one of these exclusive state lottery operators (Law 13/2011).

This law also sets general requirements: licenses and authorizations, protection of minors and vulnerable persons, public order and anti-money laundering control, and a supervision and sanctions regime. Although the reservation of lotteries for ONCE and SELAE has a special treatment, ONCE must respect these principles and the implementing regulations (for example, regarding commercial communications).

2. Specific authorization of ONCE to operate lotteries

Structurally, Royal Decree 358/1991, which reorganizes the National Organization of Spanish Blind People, configures ONCE as a public law corporation of social character, subject to State protection and partly financed through public gaming authorizations (RD 358/1991).

This royal decree establishes that:

• ONCE is subject to a gaming authorization regime, whose granting corresponds to the Council of Ministers.
• These authorizations set maximum limits for each modality: volume of issuance and sales, maximum prize percentage, maximum prices, number and characteristics of extraordinary draws, etc. (articles modified and updated, consulted in the 21700-25500 window of RD 358/1991).
• The operation of each modality is subject to strict public control through the ONCE Protectorate Council, a state protection body.

Additionally, a General Agreement between the National Government and ONCE for 2022-2031, approved by the Council of Ministers on November 2, 2021, determines the conditions of all ONCE lottery modalities and orders the publication in the BOE of the product calendar, after verification by the Protectorate Council (as recalled, among others, by the resolutions on the 2025 product calendar: BOE-A-2025-9379).

3. Specific requirements for the Daily Coupon and related products

Within this framework, the Daily Coupon is integrated into the lottery modality called "ONCE Coupon". The key requirements are:

• Specific regulation approved and published: the "ONCE Coupon" modality is governed by a regulatory regulation and its appendices, whose approval and modifications must be verified by the Protectorate Council and published in the BOE as a guarantee for consumers. The Council approved in 2022 the Procedures and Control Criteria of the “ONCE Coupon”, which condition any subsequent changes (cited, for example, in the 2024 resolutions on extraordinary draws: Christmas Extra Coupon and Draw 11/11).
• Economic and prize calibration: for the Daily Coupon, the April 30, 2025 calendar resolution sets:
  • Issuance of €10,000,000 per draw, in 50 series of 100,000 numbers.
  • Percentage allocated to prizes of 49 % of the issuance, with the possibility of accumulating undistributed amounts according to the regulation.
  • Unit price of the coupon of 2 euros, and prize distribution according to appendix 1 of the regulation (BOE-A-2025-9379).
• Authorization and publicity of extraordinary draws: special draws such as the "Christmas Extra Coupon" or the "Draw 11/11" require an agreement of the ONCE Executive Commission, verification by the Protectorate Council, and a resolution from the State Secretariat for Social Rights that publishes:
  • Validity and marketing dates.
  • Price per coupon.
  • Detailed prize structure and number of coupons awarded per category (see BOE-A-2024-12856 and BOE-A-2024-12855).
• Periodic publication of the product calendar: each quarter, the State Secretariat for Social Rights publishes in the BOE the product calendar of the three modalities (Coupon, Active Game, and Instant Lottery), specifying issuance volumes, prize percentages, and prices of Daily Coupon, Cuponazo, Weekend, etc. (for example, second quarter of 2025 in BOE-A-2025-9379).

4. Additional controls and social purpose

All these draws are framed within ONCE's status as a unique social economy organization, declared by Law 5/2011, and its mission to allocate net gaming income to social purposes and employment of people with disabilities. BOE resolutions systematically remind that:

• ONCE must previously communicate to the Protectorate Council the conditions of each product and its modifications, to verify their compliance with the General Agreement and control procedures.
• Publication in the BOE of regulations, calendars, and extraordinary draws is a guarantee of transparency and consumer protection.

In summary, to organize the Daily Coupon, ONCE needs: to be designated by Law 13/2011 as an exclusive state lottery operator, to have authorizations from the Council of Ministers and the State-ONCE General Agreement, to submit each product and calendar to verification by the Protectorate Council and publication in the BOE, and to respect the principles of participant protection and social destination of profits.

According to current legislation, ONCE is one of the two operators to which Law 13/2011, on gaming regulation, exclusively reserves state-level lotteries. This reservation is articulated through a specific state concession (Law 13/2011 and additional provision 20 of Law 46/1985), developed by Royal Decree 358/1991, of March 15, and Royal Decree 1336/2005, of November 11, along with the regulations of Coupon, Active Game, and ONCE Instant Lottery tickets approved and updated in the BOE.

1. Types of games ONCE can operate

The regulatory framework shows that ONCE can operate, at the state level, three major lottery modalities:

• ONCE Coupon (passive lottery), regulated by the Regulation approved by the Resolution of April 4, 2023, with products such as "Daily Coupon", "Cuponazo", and "Weekend", as well as extraordinary draws.
• ONCE Active Game, regulated by the Resolution of April 4, 2023, which includes products like "My Day", "Super Once", "ONCE Triplex" and common games like "Eurojackpot", and allows incorporating new products within the modality.
• Instant or pre-drawn lottery, whose basic authorization derives from the Royal Decree 1336/2005, of November 11, and the Regulation of "ONCE Instant Lottery tickets" (last major modification in the Resolution of January 29, 2026).

Royal Decree 1336/2005 expressly authorizes ONCE to market this instant lottery throughout the national territory, and Royal Decree 358/1991 recognizes among its financing means the profits derived from the "prociegos" coupon and other authorized games.

2. Reservation regime and scope of operation

Law 13/2011 establishes that state-level lotteries are reserved to two operators: the State Society of Lotteries and State Bets and ONCE. The first additional provision designates ONCE as an operator authorized to market state lottery products, and the second additional provision specifies that, due to its uniqueness as a public law corporation of social character, ONCE:

• Continues to be governed, for its lottery games, by additional provision 20 of Law 46/1985.
• Is subject to the General Agreement Government–ONCE 2022-2031, Royal Decree 358/1991, and Royal Decree 1336/2005, as well as its Statutes (Order SCB/1240/2019).

In practice, ONCE operates its three lottery modalities under a reservation regime, within the quantitative, temporal, and design limits set in the General Agreement and royal decrees, and can adapt its products (prices, prize structure, number of draws, etc.) under State control.

3. Powers of organization, marketing, and sales channels

Specific regulations attribute to the ONCE General Council the direction, organization, and operation of authorized lotteries:

• In instant lottery, Royal Decree 1336/2005 allows it to set ticket prices (with a maximum linked to the coupon price), establish the prize program (between 45% and 80% of the issuance value), and determine the volume of annual issuances and sales, within adjustable limits.
• In Coupon and Active Game, the 2023 Regulations empower ONCE to approve new products and set the calendar and characteristics of draws (weekly or daily frequency, extraordinary draws, etc.).
• The Regulations provide various marketing channels:
  • Preprinted tickets sold by the network of sales agents.
  • Tickets issued by point-of-sale terminals.
  • Sales through the official website JuegosONCE.es.
  • Other possible physical, IT, telematic, telephone, or interactive supports, provided they fully guarantee consumers and the protection of minors (Coupon Regulation, Resolution 4-4-2023).

4. Controls, authorizations, and administrative supervision

ONCE's gaming activity is subject to intense State supervision:

• The ONCE Protectorate Council, provided for in Royal Decree 358/1991, controls economic and gaming management: it verifies modification projects of the coupon regime and other games requiring prior authorization, and may request all necessary information on issuances, sales, prizes, and income destination (Royal Decree 1336/2005).
• The Council of Ministers is competent to grant and renew the instant lottery authorization (valid until 12-31-2031, according to Royal Decree 1336/2005, modified by Royal Decree 1127/2021) and, if applicable, to revoke it if legal obligations are seriously breached.
• The Directorate General for Gaming Regulation, created by Law 13/2011, develops and applies the general state gaming regulations and issues resolutions affecting activities contemplated in the law (for example, the Resolution of October 31, 2018).
• The Coupon and Active Game Regulations require prior communication to the Protectorate Council of all lottery product conditions and their modifications, for verification and publication in the BOE as a consumer guarantee.

5. Material limits and participant protection

Law 13/2011 and specific Regulations impose significant material limits on ONCE:

• Prohibition of participation by minors and self-excluded persons.
• Obligation to subject the offer to verifications and controls set out in the Coupon, Active Game, and Instant Lottery Regulations (purchase prohibitions, identity and channel controls, etc.).
• Compliance with the general objectives of Law 13/2011: consumer protection, especially vulnerable groups, fraud and money laundering prevention, and guarantee of a "dimensioned" gaming offer.
• Regulatory commitment that sales through electronic or telematic channels do not reduce the sales force, thus preserving employment for people with visual disabilities (Royal Decree 1336/2005).

In short, ONCE has broad powers to design and operate its lotteries throughout the national territory, but always within a legal reservation framework, strict public control, and strong consumer protection and responsible gaming requirements.

ONCE is, along with State Lotteries and Bets (SELAE), one of the two operators designated by Law 13/2011 to operate state-level lotteries. Based on the consulted documentation, the clearest and best-documented case of an autonomous organism similar to it —in the sense of being a public entity that organizes its own draws and allocates part of the profits to social purposes— is Loteries de Catalunya, dependent on the Generalitat of Catalonia.

General framework: who can organize lotteries

Several resolutions published in the BOE about ONCE lottery products remind that, after Law 13/2011 on gaming regulation, "state-level lotteries have been reserved to the operators designated by the law itself", expressly designating ONCE as one of those two operators along with SELAE (BOE-A-2025-13637, BOE-A-2024-12936). That is, all state-level lotteries can only be managed by:

• SELAE (National Lottery, Primitiva, Bonoloto, Euromillions, etc.).
• ONCE, with its coupon, Sueldazo, instant lottery, etc.

Autonomous communities, on the other hand, can only create and operate, if they do, autonomous-level lotteries. A report by Demócrata on prize taxation explicitly mentions "autonomous lotteries included in the regulations", differentiating them from SELAE and ONCE, but without listing which communities have them ( Demócrata analysis on lottery taxes).

Loteries de Catalunya: the clearest example

There is a direct reference to an autonomous organism with its own lottery in the Generalitat's press release about Loteries de Catalunya and the Grossa de Cap d’Any 2024 ( Loteries de Catalunya press release).

From that text it follows that:

• Loteries de Catalunya is the Generalitat's public gaming operator, responsible for products such as the Grossa de Cap d’Any, which is a year-end own draw.
• The institutional discourse emphasizes the so-called "double benefit": on one hand, the possibility of winning a prize (in the 2024 Grossa, €200,000 per €10 ticket), and on the other, the financing of social programs. The campaign is based on the idea that "when you buy a Grossa ticket you are contributing to helping people in need through social actions".
• In 2024 Loteries de Catalunya allocated more than 4 million euros specifically to policies to combat sexual abuse of children and adolescents, which reinforces the social dimension of these autonomous draws.

In this sense, the parallel with ONCE is clear on two levels:

• Both are public gaming operators (one state and one autonomous) with periodic and extraordinary lottery products.
• In both cases, a significant part of the income is directed to social programs: in ONCE's case, to employment and services for people with disabilities ( analysis of Sueldazo and ONCE's social model); in Loteries de Catalunya's case, to Generalitat social policies.

Are there more autonomous lotteries with their own organism?

The consulted sources speak generically of "other autonomous lotteries" (for example, when analyzing the joint taxation of SELAE, ONCE, Red Cross, and autonomous lotteries in Demócrata), but do not identify by name other specific autonomous entities similar to Loteries de Catalunya.

Additionally, a report from the Ministry of Social Rights on the online gaming market cites "games with autonomous licenses" as a specific category, confirming that several communities have their own competencies and products, but again without detailing which organism operates them in each case.

With the information available in this investigation, it can be stated with certainty that:

• At the state level, the only major lottery operators with their own draws are SELAE and ONCE.
• At the autonomous level, the documented example of a public gaming organism that organizes its own draws and links its profits to social programs is Loteries de Catalunya.
• There are other "autonomous lotteries" mentioned for tax and regulatory purposes, but the consulted sources do not allow compiling a reliable list of equivalent organisms community by community.

Therefore, if one is looking for an organism clearly similar to ONCE, but at the autonomous level, the solid reference is Catalonia, through Loteries de Catalunya; for other communities, the public data reviewed mention the existence of autonomous lotteries, but without precisely identifying their managing entities or their degree of similarity to ONCE's social model.