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ONCE operates its gaming draws in Spain within a special legal regime as a state-level lottery operator. This regime is mainly based on Law 13/2011, of May 27, on the regulation of gaming, amended by Law 23/2022, and a set of resolutions from the Secretary of State for Social Rights and its predecessors that approve the regulations for each ONCE lottery modality (coupon, active game, instant lottery, etc.).

1. Basic regulatory framework

Law 13/2011 establishes the general framework for state-level gaming (text in BOE). In its preamble and Title I it states that:

• It regulates the organization, operation, and development of state-level gaming activities, especially through electronic, computer, or telematic means.
• It explicitly includes state-level lotteries and provides a reservation of this activity to certain operators.
• It points out the need for a “scaled” gaming offer subject to strict public control to protect public order, prevent fraud and money laundering, and minimize addictive effects.

In this context, the preamble of Law 13/2011 expressly maintains the exclusive reservation of state-level lottery activity in favor of the State Society Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE) and ONCE, as operators that already exploited these lotteries in a controlled manner.

2. Special regime of ONCE and authorizations

On this general basis, ONCE does not enter the market as an ordinary private operator granted general and specific licenses under Law 13/2011, but rather:

• Acts as a reserved operator of state-level lotteries, designated by the law itself.
• Must submit to the General State Administration the regulation of each lottery modality (Coupon, Active Game, Instant Lottery, etc.) and its modifications.
• These regulations are approved and published by resolution of the competent Secretary of State (currently Social Rights), often “in accordance with article 4 and additional provisions 1 and 2 of Law 13/2011.” Recent examples are the April 4, 2023 resolutions on the Coupon and the ONCE Active Game (coupon, active game).

In practice, this means that ONCE is permanently subject to a regulatory authorization regime for its gaming products by the State: it cannot launch or modify draws without the corresponding regulation or its amendment being approved and published in the BOE.

3. Administrative control and supervision

Control of state-level gaming activity corresponds to the General Directorate for the Regulation of Gaming (DGOJ) and the competent Ministry, to which Law 13/2011 assigns:

• Ensuring the integrity, security, reliability, and transparency of gaming operations.
• Guaranteeing compliance with Law 13/2011 and the operating conditions set in each lottery regulation.
• Exercising sanctioning power over operators, including ONCE, for gaming infractions.

The existence of multiple resolutions from the Secretary of State for Social Rights “publishing modifications of the regulatory framework” for ONCE lotteries (for example, those from 2023 and 2024 on instant ticket lottery: BOE-A-2024-8463) reflects a framework of continuous supervision and collaboration between ONCE and the General State Administration to adapt products to public gaming policy.

4. Responsible gaming, anti-money laundering prevention, and participant protection

Law 13/2011, reinforced by Law 23/2022 (BOE-A-2022-18037), imposes on all state-level operators, including ONCE:

• Safer or responsible gaming obligations (article 8 and new provisions), with specific measures for information, prevention, and limitation for at-risk groups.
• Measures to protect minors and self-excluded or prohibited persons, including identification and exclusion systems from participation.
• Technical and monitoring requirements approved by DGOJ resolutions, such as the June 6, 2024 resolution on monitoring systems (BOE-A-2024-12639), setting traceability and control standards applicable to operators.
• Submission to general anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations, as the gaming sector is considered risky and Law 13/2011 emphasizes the need to avoid using lotteries as a laundering instrument.

5. Tax obligations and destination of profits

Title VII of Law 13/2011 establishes the tax on gaming activities applicable to activities regulated by the law and foresees compatibility with other gaming taxes. ONCE must:

• Bear the specific state-level gaming taxation provided in Law 13/2011 and related tax regulations.
• Fulfill information and settlement obligations associated with its draws.
• Channel the profits obtained towards social purposes and support for blind and visually impaired persons that justify its status as a reserved operator, according to its specific regulations and agreements with the Administration.

In summary, to organize gaming draws in Spain, ONCE must operate as a reserved state-level lottery operator subject to Law 13/2011, obtain prior administrative approval of the regulations for each product, comply with demanding responsible gaming, technical control, anti-money laundering, and specific tax obligations, and maintain a constant supervision and collaboration relationship with the General State Administration, materialized in numerous resolutions published in the BOE.

The National Organization of Spanish Blind People (ONCE) is, according to state regulations, a public law corporation of a social nature, with its own legal personality, full capacity to act and self-organization. Its functions and competencies are mainly articulated in Royal Decree 358/1991, of March 15, in its successive amendments (especially Royal Decrees 394/2011, 1152/2015, and 1127/2021), in the Order SCB/1240/2019 which publishes the consolidated text of its Statutes, and in the Royal Decree 1336/2005 on instant lottery.

Legal nature and social purposes

Royal Decree 358/1991 and the 2019 Statutes define ONCE as an entity whose essential purpose is:

• Personal autonomy, rehabilitation, and full social inclusion of blind or severely visually impaired Spanish nationals.
• Guaranteeing equal opportunities, non-discrimination, and effective enjoyment of citizenship rights.
• Minimizing the impact of blindness or severe visual impairment on the lives of its members through a system of comprehensive social protection.

These purposes are exercised “through the provision of social services” throughout Spain, developing both own social functions and delegated public functions from public administrations.

Social functions and service provision

According to article 1 of Royal Decree 358/1991 (as amended) and the Statutes, ONCE must provide services, benefits, and activities at least in areas such as:

• Educational inclusion of blind or low-vision persons.
• Training and labor insertion and employment promotion, including its status as a protected employment organization.
• Comprehensive rehabilitation and development of personal autonomy.
• Universal accessibility and design for all, including tiflotechnology.
• Promotion of R&D&I related to blindness, severe visual impairment, and assistive technologies.
• Promotion and distribution of accessible bibliographic resources to facilitate education, employment, and cultural access.
• Encouragement of culture and sports for affiliated persons.
• Internal and external information and improvement of the social perception of ONCE and blindness.

Additionally, through the ONCE Foundation for Cooperation and Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities and the Ilunion business group, ONCE extends its actions to other disability groups, reinforcing its social function and employment creation and maintenance.

Public gaming operator and financing

One of ONCE’s core competencies is its status as a public gaming operator of recognized prestige. Legislation (Law 13/2011 on gaming regulation, Law 5/2011 on Social Economy, additional provisions of Law 46/1985, and Royal Decree 1336/2005) and the General Government–ONCE Agreements recognize:

• The ownership and operation of several state-reserved lottery modalities (coupon, active games, instant or pre-drawn lottery, etc.).
• The power of direction, organization, and commercialization of these games, within price, prize, issuance volume, and other conditions set by regulations and the current General Agreement (2022–2031).
• The obligation to allocate net gaming income, after prizes and costs, to financing its social purposes and solidarity commitments with other persons with disabilities.

ONCE may, after verification by the Protectorate Council, enter agreements with other gaming operators, including international ones, for joint lottery products, enhancing its competitive capacity in the gaming market.

Collaboration functions with public administrations

Royal Decree 358/1991 and the Statutes emphasize that ONCE acts in a complementary regime with public administrations:

• Collaborates with the competent ministerial department in social policy in planning and coordinating service programs.
• Establishes collaboration agreements with the competent Ministry of Employment and with autonomous communities for recognition as a protected employment organization.
• May be recognized by autonomous communities as a collaborating social action organization, articulating institutional cooperation lines.
• Cooperates with administrations and private entities in implementing social integration policies for persons with disabilities.

Protectorate regime, control, and supervision

ONCE is subject to the State protectorate, exercised through the Protectorate Council, a collegiate body whose composition and powers are set in article 8 of Royal Decree 358/1991, amended by Royal Decrees 1152/2015 and 1127/2021.

Among its competencies are:

• Approving the Statutes of ONCE and their amendments, and ordering their publication in the BOE.
• Verifying and controlling ONCE’s gaming activity: modalities, prize programs, issuance volumes, and compliance with authorization conditions.
• Requesting all necessary information on economic management, income, fund destination, and audits.
• Exercising, through a Disciplinary Commission composed only of Administration representatives, the sanctioning power in gaming matters, according to Law 13/2011.

Thus, the legal system combines ONCE’s broad autonomy of self-organization and management with strict public control over its activities, especially gaming, ensuring these are oriented to fulfilling its social purposes and the general interest.

With the available official and journalistic information, there is no single public figure that exactly sums all the main prizes of ONCE's "daily draws" in the last decade. However, it is possible to reasonably estimate how many draws are held annually and, based on the prize structure, approximate the number of main prizes awarded in that period.

1. How many daily ONCE draws are held annually?

Under the label of "daily draws" there are actually several different products. Based on BOE resolutions about ONCE's product calendar and explanatory pieces from Demócrata and other media, the following is observed:

• Daily Coupon (the classic coupon): from Monday to Thursday the Daily Coupon draw is held. The Demócrata newspaper explains it as follows: Monday to Thursday Daily Coupon; Friday Cuponazo; Saturday and Sunday Weekend Salary.
• ONCE Triplex: Demócrata describes that "five draws are held per day," at different time slots (morning, noon, afternoon, and night). It is a high-frequency game with several draws each day.

If we focus on these two clearly "daily" games:

• Daily Coupon: 4 draws per week × 52 weeks ≈ 208 draws per year. In practice, there may be slight variations due to holidays or special draws coexisting with the daily one, but the order of magnitude is that.
• Triplex: 5 draws each day × 365 days ≈ 1,825 draws per year, if that frequency of five daily extractions is maintained throughout the year.

Adding both, it can be said that there are just over 2,000 "daily frequency" draws annually (about 208 from the Daily Coupon and about 1,825 from Triplex), not counting other active games that do not necessarily have that daily cadence or are not described in detail in the consulted sources.

2. Main prizes awarded in the last decade

Here it is important to distinguish between:

• What the regulations and resolutions say (prize structure of each draw).
• A possible consolidated statistical balance from ONCE with the effective number of main prizes paid year by year.

In the analyzed documentation (BOE resolutions on the "ONCE Coupon" and institutional or journalistic notes) the theoretical prize structure per draw is clearly recorded, but no aggregated table like "number of main prizes paid between 2016 and 2025" has been found.

2.1. Daily Coupon

Institutional and municipal notes (for example, the Málaga City Council one from 2026) detail that the Daily Coupon awards:

• A main prize of €500,000 to the coupon that matches the five digits and the series.
• Other secondary prizes for the five digits without series, 4, 3, 2, and 1 digit, etc.

Since the structure contemplates a single main prize per draw, and using the previous estimate of about 208 draws per year:

• ≈ 208 main Daily Coupon prizes per year.
• In 10 years, around 2,000–2,100 theoretical main prizes (assuming all scheduled draws were held).

2.2. ONCE Triplex

In the case of Triplex, Demócrata indicates that five draws are held each day, each with its winning combination. Each daily draw has a winning combination that would award the maximum prize of that game (its "main prize").

With 5 draws × 365 days ≈ 1,825 annual draws, and one maximum prize per draw:

• ≈ 1,825 main Triplex prizes per year.
• In 10 years, around 18,000–18,500 theoretical main prizes.

3. Limits of the estimation

The above figures are reasoned estimates based on:

• The described draw cadence in Demócrata articles and other informative pieces.
• BOE resolutions on calendars and characteristics of the "ONCE Coupon".

No official statistics have been found in the consulted sources that exactly sum the main prizes effectively claimed in the last decade for all ONCE "daily draws." For a closed and audited figure, access to internal reports or specific statistical series from the organization itself would be necessary.

Nevertheless, it can be stated that: ONCE organizes on the order of two thousand daily frequency draws per year (adding Daily Coupon and Triplex), and that the number of theoretical main prizes awarded in these games over a decade is around 20,000, distributed between both products.