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ONCE can organize lottery draws in Spain because it has a unique legal regime as a state-level gaming operator, different from other private operators. This regime is built on three pillars: (1) its status as a public law corporation with social purposes, (2) a legal reservation of certain lottery modalities in its favor, and (3) a specific system of authorizations and public control.

1. Legal basis of ONCE's “unique regime”

• Royal Decree 358/1991, of March 15, which reorganizes ONCE (arts. 1 and 7): defines ONCE as a public law corporation of a social nature that exercises delegated public functions under the State's protectorate and is mainly financed by the exploitation of state-level reserved lotteries.
• Law 13/2011, on gaming regulation:
  • Its first additional provision establishes a reservation of certain state-level lotteries in favor of ONCE and SELAE.
  • The second additional provision expressly recognizes the particular legal regime of ONCE's gaming activities, which are subject to Law 13/2011 but with special features, channeled through Royal Decree 358/1991 and the General Government-ONCE Agreement.
• Law 5/2011, on Social Economy (third additional provision) and the twentieth additional provision of Law 46/1985, on the 1986 Budgets: consolidate the possibility for ONCE to finance its social purposes through state-level gaming modalities.
• General Government-ONCE Agreement 2022-2031, approved by the Council of Ministers (cited in Royal Decree 1127/2021): specifies, for each period, the authorized gaming modalities, their global limits, and exploitation conditions.

2. Authorization regime in gaming matters

Article 7 of Royal Decree 358/1991 (amended by several royal decrees, including 1152/2015 and 1127/2021) establishes that:

• ONCE, by its nature as a corporation subject to strict public control, is subject to an authorization regime in gaming matters.
• The Council of Ministers is responsible for granting ONCE authorizations related to:
  • The draw regime of the blind coupon.
  • Any other gaming modality defined in the General Government-ONCE Agreement (active gaming, instant lottery, etc.).
• The Council of Ministers' authorization:
  • Is adopted at the proposal of the ministry exercising the protectorate (currently Social Rights) and in agreement with Finance and Interior, after a report from the ONCE Protectorate Council and hearing the organization's General Council.
  • Must precisely define the terms, scope, and duration of the authorization.
  • Sets maximum limits within which ONCE can manage the games: maximum volume of issuance and sales, maximum prize percentage, maximum product prices, number and conditions of extraordinary draws, etc.
• ONCE's General Council can make commercial decisions (draw frequency, product characteristics, etc.) but always within the limits set in the authorization.

3. Specific modalities: instant lottery and others

For certain modalities, a specific regulatory authorization is also required:

• Royal Decree 1336/2005, of November 11: authorizes ONCE to operate a national instant or pre-drawn lottery and regulates its basic structure.
  • Assigns ONCE the direction, organization, and operation of this lottery.
  • Sets parameters such as the mandatory prize return percentage, the maximum annual issuance and sales limits, and the general pricing framework.
  • Requires approval of a Regulation governing the instant lottery, verified by the Protectorate Council and published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), detailing design, format, price, prize program, and reveal system.
  • Subjects the authorization to a specific validity period (currently until 2031, according to the latest amendment) and foresees revocation causes for serious breaches.
• The rest of ONCE's gaming modalities (coupon, active games like “Triplex,” “Super Once,” etc.) are regulated by Product Regulations approved by the ONCE General Council Agreement and published by Resolution of the competent State Secretariat in the BOE.

4. Material, organizational, and control conditions

• Social purpose and absence of profit motive: net gaming income must be allocated to financing social services and integration of blind or disabled persons, as established by Royal Decree 358/1991 and the General Agreement.
• Reservation and state scope: ONCE can only operate the state-level lottery modalities reserved and authorized to it; it does not have a generic authorization for any game.
• Prior authorization and quantitative limits: each modality requires Council of Ministers authorization with clear caps on issuance, sales, and prizes, which cannot be exceeded without new authorization.
• Detailed regulation of each product: each lottery modality and product must have a Regulation approved and published in the BOE, setting game conditions, prize program, sales channels, etc.
• Enhanced public control:
  • The ONCE Protectorate Council exercises the State's protectorate, verifies that commercial decisions and gaming regulations comply with the rules, and can request all necessary information (issuances, collections, prizes, income destination).
  • Certain regulatory powers that Law 13/2011 assigns to the gaming authority are exercised, for ONCE, through this Protectorate Council.
• Compliance with general gaming regulations: besides its unique regime, ONCE must respect general rules on responsible gaming, commercial communications, protection of minors, and addiction prevention (including Royal Decree 958/2020 on gaming advertising).

In summary, ONCE can only organize lottery draws in Spain insofar as: (a) there is a legal reservation of lotteries in its favor, (b) it has specific authorization from the Council of Ministers for each modality within set limits, and (c) its products are regulated and subject to control by the Protectorate Council and other competent authorities, ensuring that gaming exploitation finances its social purposes and is subject to strict public control.

The regulation of the distribution and taxation of ONCE prizes rests on a specific block of regulations about the entity's legal regime and its games, and on the general tax regulations on the taxation of lottery and betting prizes, which also apply to ONCE draws.

1. ONCE's legal regime and gaming authorizations

The basic pillar is Royal Decree 358/1991, of March 15, which reorganizes the National Organization of Spanish Blind (BOE-A-1991-7271). This royal decree:

• Configures ONCE as a public law corporation of a social nature, subject to the State's protectorate.
• Provides that it is financed “mainly” with the income obtained from the lottery modalities granted to it.
• Subjects ONCE to an authorization regime in gaming matters: the Council of Ministers grants authorizations for the coupon and any other gaming modality, setting maximum limits on:
  • Annual issuance and sales.
  • Maximum prize percentage.
  • Prices and extraordinary draws.

This regime has been updated through successive royal decrees, including Royal Decree 1127/2021, of December 21 (BOE-A-2021-21110), which adapts the authorization system and extends, in coordination with the State–ONCE General Agreement 2022-2031, the validity of some gaming modalities.

Additionally, Order SCB/1240/2019, of December 18, publishes the consolidated text of ONCE's Statutes (BOE-A-2019-18390), which states that:

• ONCE is one of the two operators designated by Law 13/2011, on gaming regulation, for the state reservation of lotteries.
• It finances its social purposes through the exploitation of three main modalities: Coupon, Instant ticket lottery, and ONCE Active gaming.

2. Product regulations and prize distribution

The specific distribution of prizes in each draw is regulated in the specific regulations of each product:

• Royal Decree 1336/2005, of November 11, authorizing ONCE to operate an instant or pre-drawn lottery (BOE-A-2005-19153):
  • Assigns ONCE the direction, organization, and operation of this lottery.
  • Establishes that each issuance's program must allocate between 45% and 80% of the issuance value to prizes.
  • Refers to a specific regulation to define ticket design, program, and prize payment method.
• Recent specific regulations:
  • ONCE Coupon Regulation, published by Resolution of April 4, 2023 (BOE-A-2023-9031).
  • ONCE Active Gaming Regulation, also of April 4, 2023 (BOE-A-2023-9032).
  • ONCE Instant Ticket Lottery Regulation, approved and successively amended since 2012, with the latest major amendment in the Resolution of February 1, 2024 (BOE-A-2024-2843).

These regulations determine for each modality the issuance structure, the percentage of revenue allocated to prizes, prize types and distribution, as well as expiration and collection rules.

3. Taxation of ONCE prizes for winners

From the recipient's perspective, ONCE prizes are subject to the special tax on prizes from certain lotteries and bets, integrated into the Personal Income Tax Law (IRPF):

• Law 35/2006, of November 28, on IRPF (BOE-A-2006-20764), whose thirty-third additional provision, drafted by article 2.3 of Law 16/2012, of December 27 (BOE-A-2012-15650), establishes:
  • A special tax for, among others, “prizes from gaming modalities authorized to ONCE.”
  • The existence of a minimum exempt amount per prize, with taxation only on the portion exceeding that threshold, which has been updated with subsequent reforms.
  • A special tax rate and the obligation to apply withholding or payment on account on the taxable portion.
  • That these prizes taxed under this regime are not integrated into the general or savings tax base of the IRPF, as they are subject to this separate special tax.
• For non-residents, the same Law 16/2012 introduces a fifth additional provision in the Consolidated Text of the Non-Resident Income Tax Law (Royal Legislative Decree 5/2004), replicating the special tax on the same prizes when winners are non-residents.

The regulatory and management development is done, among others, through:

• Order HAP/70/2013, of January 30, which approves forms 230 and 136 for self-assessment of the special tax and its withholdings (BOE-A-2013-952).
• Order HAP/2368/2013, of December 13, which approves form 270 for the annual summary of withholdings and payments on account of this special tax (BOE-A-2013-13228), later updated by orders such as HFP/1286/2023 and HAC/1431/2025.

4. ONCE's fiscal regime as an entity

Finally, Law 49/2002, of December 23, on the tax regime of non-profit entities and tax incentives for patronage (BOE-A-2002-25039) and its implementing regulations establish a favorable tax regime for entities like ONCE, provided they meet the conditions of non-profit entities, separately from the specific taxation of prizes paid to players.

ONCE's Daily Coupon is drawn from Monday to Thursday, which practically means about 200-210 draws per year, according to the authorized product calendar and specialized press references. Regarding the specific revenue of this product in the last decade, official sources consulted only show recent disaggregated data (2024-2025) in the form of authorized issuance volume, not a complete series of sales income for the ten years, so it is only possible to precisely describe the most recent situation and not the entire decade with year-by-year figures.

Number of Daily Coupon draws per year

Publications from Demócrata and ONCE itself consistently report that the Daily Coupon is held from Monday to Thursday:

• A Demócrata article from September 17, 2026 explains that the Daily Coupon “holds one of its usual draws from Monday to Thursday” and details that it takes place each day at 21:25 hours.
• Other Demócrata texts about specific draws (e.g., August 10, September 3 and 10, 2026) reiterate this pattern: there is a Daily Coupon draw every weekday from Monday to Thursday; Friday is reserved for Cuponazo and the weekend for Sueldazo.

If this stable structure is maintained throughout the year, this implies approximately:

• 4 draws per week (Monday to Thursday).
• About 52 weeks per year.
• Therefore, around 208 Daily Coupon draws per year, with slight variations due to holidays or occasional calendar adjustments.

In summary, it can be considered that ONCE holds around two hundred Daily Coupon draws each year.

Recent data on issuance volume and approximate revenue

For the economic part, the clearest official reference is the resolutions of the State Secretariat for Social Rights published in the BOE, which provide the calendar and issuance volume of ONCE lottery products by quarters. They detail how much is issued (in euros) for the Daily Coupon in each period.

For example:

• The resolution for the third quarter of 2024 indicates that the total issuance volume of ONCE Coupon products amounts to 1,414.5 million euros, of which 530 million euros correspond to Daily Coupon draws (BOE 07/25/2024).
• The resolution for the second quarter of 2025 shows an issuance volume of 1,382.5 million euros for ONCE Coupon products, with 520 million assigned to the Daily Coupon (BOE 05/13/2025).
• The one for the third quarter of 2025 again places the total at 1,414.5 million, with 530 million euros for Daily Coupon draws (BOE 07/30/2025).
• The fourth quarter of 2025 shows a total volume of 1,504.5 million, maintaining 530 million issuance associated with the Daily Coupon (BOE 11/15/2025).

These figures mean that, only in 2024-2025, the authorized issuance of the Daily Coupon is around 520-530 million euros per quarter. Extending this magnitude to four quarters, we are talking about approximately 2,000-2,100 million euros per year of issuance volume for this product.

It is important to clarify that the issuance volume set in the BOE is a ceiling for issuance and prizes, not necessarily the effective revenue from sales, although in practice it serves as a reasonable proxy for the product's economic size.

Limitations to reconstruct the evolution over the last decade

From the BOE resolutions, it can be stated that, at least in 2024 and 2025, the Daily Coupon:

• Maintains a very high and stable issuance level (about 2,000 million annually).
• Does not show, in these years, sharp variations in amounts allocated per quarter.

However, in the research conducted, no disaggregated historical series by product (Daily Coupon versus other ONCE draws) systematically covering the last ten years appear. ONCE's annual reports and the Directorate General for Gaming Regulation's reports usually offer aggregated data by broad gaming categories but do not always separate the Daily Coupon in detail from other coupons and active games.

Consequently, with the information available in the consulted sources, it is possible to:

• Specify the approximate number of annual draws (about 200-210).
• Describe the order of magnitude and recent stability of the product (around 2,000 million euros of issuance per year in 2024-2025).

But it is not possible to reliably reconstruct, year by year, the detailed evolution of Daily Coupon revenue throughout the entire decade without direct access to ONCE's complete economic reports and more disaggregated official statistical series by product than those found in the search.