Draws for today Monday, August 10: schedules of Primitiva, Bonoloto, EuroDreams, and ONCE Daily Coupon

The so-called “definitive scrutiny” in draws like La Primitiva and Bonoloto is the internal process by which Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE) officially validates the winning combination, cross-checks all played tickets, calculates the prize distribution, and determines whether the jackpot is awarded or rolled over. Publicly available sources explain the effects of this scrutiny (for example, deciding if there is a winner of the special category), what general controls are applied over prize management, and what collection deadlines apply, but they do not detail point by point the internal technical procedure. From this scattered information, a reasonable outline of the process can be drawn, clarifying where official regulations and audits end and where inferences begin.

1. What the definitive scrutiny is and its purpose

In the result reports of La Primitiva published by the newspaper Demócrata, it is explained that, after the draw, “the definitive scrutiny will determine if there is any ticket that has won the maximum prize or if the jackpot continues to accumulate for the next draw” (La Primitiva July 30, and similar pieces from July 25 and 27, 2026). That is, the physical draw only generates the winning combination, the complementary number, and the refund number; the scrutiny is the subsequent calculation over all registered bets to know how many winners there are in each category, how much corresponds to each, and whether the jackpot is awarded or maintained.

Demócrata’s news about Bonoloto emphasizes that results “can be consulted after each draw (…) on the official website of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado” and that “the definitive verification must be done on the Loterías y Apuestas del Estado portal or at an official point of its sales network” (Bonoloto July 18). This reflects that the definitive scrutiny is the one uploaded to SELAE’s systems and commercial network, and only then is the result considered official.

2. Controls and supervision over prize management

Control over how prizes are managed (a key part of closing the scrutiny) is mainly known through the Audit Report of the Court of Auditors and the parliamentary resolution that adopts it. The Joint Congress-Senate Commission approved in 2025 a resolution on the “control system applied in prize management” of SELAE, urging the public company to:

• “Issue (…) a procedure that orders and systematizes all regulation of prize payment across all channels.”
• “Introduce improvements in IT systems (…) that allow better evaluation of fraud risks and their detection.”
• Strengthen the organic independence and resources of the anti-money laundering unit.
• Establish an official registry of document entry and exit that guarantees the truthfulness of dates in communications related to prize payments.
• Require financial entities to provide identification documentation of prize recipients and promptly report suspicious operations to SEPBLAC.

All this is stated in the Resolution of May 8, 2025, of the Joint Commission, which summarizes conclusions for the 2022 fiscal year. It does not detail how winners of La Primitiva or Bonoloto are internally computed, but it clearly states that closing the scrutiny and prize payment are subject to a framework of anti-fraud and anti-money laundering controls.

Moreover, Demócrata’s pieces on Bonoloto remind that SELAE “organizes the draw, publishes official results, and establishes prize distribution according to the rules of each game” (Bonoloto June 28), placing the scrutiny as a strictly centralized function within the public company.

3. Deadlines and collection channels after the scrutiny

Once the definitive scrutiny is closed and official results published, collection deadlines open. Demócrata and other media repeatedly cite that:

• Prizes from SELAE games (including La Primitiva and Bonoloto) “generally expire three months from the day after the draw” (Draws June 11 and many similar pieces).
• Prizes under 2,000 euros can be collected as “minor prizes” at authorized administrations and sales points (Bonoloto June 25).
• Amounts equal to or greater than 2,000 euros are processed as major prizes through financial entities collaborating with SELAE, which must identify the recipient and collect necessary documentation (Bonoloto July 18).

In La Primitiva, news remind that prizes “must be collected through the official channels of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado” and that the ticket must be kept in good condition (La Primitiva and Tax Authorities).

4. What is not known about the internal procedure

Neither the Joint Commission resolution nor the specialized news consulted detail, for example, how many successive verifications are performed between the draw moment and the publication of results, the exact role of notaries or auditors in the specific case of La Primitiva and Bonoloto, or how algorithms grouping bets and calculating prizes are audited. It is known, through Demócrata, that SELAE’s activity is governed by Law 13/2011 on Gambling Regulation and by specific regulations for each product, but these technical regulations do not appear reproduced in the sources reviewed (lottery sellers’ protest).

Therefore, it can be stated with certainty that:

• After the draw, a centralized definitive scrutiny is performed by SELAE that determines winners, amounts, and jackpot destination.
• Only after this scrutiny are official results published and collection enabled.
• Prize management is subject to reinforced anti-fraud and anti-money laundering controls, according to the Court of Auditors’ audit adopted by the Parliament.
• The ordinary collection deadline is three months from the day after the draw, through the sales network or collaborating banks.

No further information is available in the consulted sources about specific internal phases, exact scrutiny times, or detailed content of the scrutiny records of La Primitiva and Bonoloto.

According to current legislation, ONCE has the status of a state lottery operator with its own regime: it can organize, exploit, and manage various lottery modalities (coupon, active game, and instant lottery) but always within the authorizations and limits set by the Government and under strong public control. The Council of Ministers grants the framework authorizations and sets essential parameters (types of games, sales limits, prizes, prices, etc.), while ONCE’s General Council develops and manages the draws within those margins. Control and verification of these competencies correspond to the Protectorate Council, which supervises gaming activities and orders the publication in the BOE of the regulations for each lottery product. Additionally, ONCE can launch new products and modify existing ones, but always after administrative verification and official publication.

1. General legal framework of ONCE as a lottery operator

The core of the legal regime is in Royal Decree 358/1991, which reorganizes ONCE and recognizes that it “enjoys a set of public authorizations in gaming matters” as a means of financing its social purposes, with a circuit subject to “strict public control” (Royal Decree 358/1991). This royal decree, amended by Royal Decree 394/2011 and numerous subsequent norms, establishes:

• That ONCE is a public law corporation subject to the State Protectorate.
• That its gaming authorizations are governed by applicable legal regulations and by the General Government–ONCE Agreement, currently for 2022‑2031, cited in the Resolution of April 4, 2023.
• That the Protectorate Council must exercise “strict public control” over gaming activities.

The Law 13/2011 on gambling regulation, as recalled by Royal Decree 1706/2011, reserves state-level lotteries to operators designated by the law itself and names ONCE as one of the only two state lottery operators, safeguarding its specific regime.

2. Authorizations and limits set by the Government

The gaming article of Royal Decree 358/1991 provides that:

• The Council of Ministers is responsible for granting authorizations to ONCE regarding the regime of coupon draws and any other gaming modality defined in the General Government–ONCE Agreement.
• The Council of Ministers’ agreement, upon proposal from the competent ministry and from Finance and Interior, precisely sets the “terms, scope, and duration” of the authorization, including maximum sales limits, emissions, prize percentages, prices, and special draws.

In the specific case of instant lottery, Royal Decree 1706/2011 updates Royal Decree 1336/2005, maintaining the exploitation authorization nationwide and establishing, for example, that the prize program must be between 45% and 70% of the emission value and that the maximum annual sales and emission volume is set at 1,000 and 1,250 million euros (with CPI updates).

3. Organizational and management powers of ONCE

Within these limits, Royal Decree 358/1991 recognizes ONCE’s General Council the capacity to “adopt all necessary decisions” about the coupon draw regime and other authorized modalities, for organizational, economic, or commercial reasons. This power is concretized in internal regulations for each modality, approved by ONCE agreements and published in the BOE, after verification by the Protectorate Council. Recent and classic examples include:

• The Coupon Regulation, whose consolidated text was initially published in the Resolution of January 28, 2010 and has been repeatedly modified, most recently by the Resolution of December 23, 2025.
• The ONCE Active Game, regulated and modified in various resolutions such as the Resolution of December 2, 2009, the Resolution of October 11, 2012, or the Resolution of August 23, 2016.
• The Instant Ticket Lottery, whose current regulation was approved in the Resolution of April 4, 2023 and is continuously modified by subsequent resolutions: April 2023, May 2023, July 2023, August 2023, December 2023, February 2024, March 2024, and April 2024.

These regulations detail ONCE’s operational competencies: product design and format, price, draw mechanics, calendar and schedules, prize system, expiration conditions, sales channels, etc. Royal Decree 1706/2011 makes clear that the instant lottery regulation is approved by ONCE and verified by the Protectorate Council, which orders its publication in the BOE “as a consumer guarantee.”

4. Creation of new products and international agreements

Legislation also attributes to ONCE the initiative to:

• Launch new products within its lottery modalities (for example, various “scratch cards,” “Super Once,” “Triplex,” etc.), whose conditions are incorporated as appendices to the regulation and published by resolutions of the State Secretariat, as seen in norms like the Resolution of February 10, 2016 or the Resolution of June 6, 2014.
• Enter into joint marketing agreements for lottery products with other European operators, after verification by the Protectorate Council and, in some cases, specific authorization from the Council of Ministers, according to the gaming article of Royal Decree 358/1991.

5. Controls, supervision, and responsible gaming

The Protectorate Council, regulated in Royal Decree 394/2011, has specific competencies to:

• Report on authorization proposals regarding gaming modalities and products before submission to the Council of Ministers.
• Establish control criteria and procedures over the coupon and other games, verifying emission volumes, collection, prizes paid and expired.

Additionally, Royal Decree 358/1991 obliges ONCE to cooperate with the State against illegal gaming, fraud, and money laundering, and to comply with responsible gaming regulations (prohibition for minors, prevention of excessive gaming). The ONCE Statutes and other resolutions on coupon, active game, and instant lottery complete this system of public control and supervised self-regulation.

To collect a prize from Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (LAE) exceeding 2,500 euros, state regulations mainly require compliance with the special tax on lottery and betting prizes and collaboration obligations with the Tax Agency. Prizes above the exempt amount are taxed through a withholding at the time of collection, and the State Society Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE) acts as withholding agent and informer to the AEAT. The Gambling Law also establishes a control and fraud prevention framework that requires proper identification of participants and guarantees traceability of payments. Regarding practical aspects (specific deadlines, exact documentation, or cash limits), the analyzed sources barely go into detail, so only a general synthesis supported by published tax and gaming legislation can be offered.

General regulatory framework of state gambling

The basic regime of state-level lotteries is set out in Law 13/2011, on gambling regulation, amended, among others, by Law 23/2022 and Law 11/2021, on measures to prevent and combat tax fraud. Law 13/2011 defines lotteries and prizes, reserves state-level lotteries to designated operators, and establishes that authorizations must set, among other aspects, “prize conditions,” “participants’ rights and claim procedures,” as well as “protection measures” and fraud prevention.

Law 11/2021 expressly strengthens SELAE’s duty of collaboration with the Tax Administration, even allowing this collaboration to be articulated through an agreement with the AEAT. From this framework, it is inferred that to collect significant prizes, SELAE must identify the winner and have the necessary information to comply with tax and fraud prevention obligations, although the law does not specify in these fragments a concrete document (ID card, NIE, passport) nor detail collection deadlines.

Special tax and fiscal treatment of prizes over €2,500

The central piece is the special tax on prizes from certain lotteries and bets, introduced by Law 16/2012. This law modifies the thirty-third additional provision of the Personal Income Tax Law (Law 35/2006) and establishes that prizes from lotteries and bets organized by SELAE, autonomous communities, the Spanish Red Cross, and ONCE-authorized modalities, among others, are subject to this tax.

According to the wording reproduced in Order HAP/70/2013, prizes whose full amount is equal to or less than 2,500 euros are exempt, while those exceeding that amount are taxed “on the part exceeding that amount.” That is, for a prize over 2,500 euros, only the fraction exceeding that amount is subject to the tax. The same Order explains that the tax is accrued at the moment the prize is paid and that a withholding or payment on account of 20% must be applied on the taxable base of the special tax.

To manage these withholdings, model 230 and model 136 are approved in Order HAP/70/2013, and later model 270 in Order HAP/2368/2013, which develops the “Annual summary of withholdings and payments on account. Special tax on prizes from certain lotteries and bets.” These orders have been technically modified, among others, by Order HAC/1431/2025 and Order HAC/763/2018, but always within the logic that the operator (SELAE) withholds and informs the AEAT.

Law 6/2018, General State Budget for 2018 also introduces a transitional provision (thirty-fifth) raising the exempt amount in 2018 and 2019 (10,000 and 20,000 euros, respectively, according to the cited fragment). However, the sources used do not show the detail of the current regulation beyond those years, so it can only be stated with certainty that when the exemption was 2,500 euros, any prize exceeding it was subject to the special tax on the part exceeding that figure.

Identification, payment, and communication to AEAT

In practice, collecting prizes subject to the special tax implies that the paying entity (authorized sales point or financial entity contracted with SELAE) must:

• Withhold the tax corresponding to the special tax at the moment of payment, according to Order HAP/70/2013 and Order HAP/2368/2013.
• Identify the recipient as necessary to inform the AEAT, an obligation reinforced by SELAE’s “special duty of collaboration” with the Tax Administration set out in Law 11/2021.
• Declare and remit these withholdings periodically through the models approved by the indicated tax regulations.

The reviewed regulations do not specify, in the consulted fragments, the exact documentation required from the winner (type of identification, justification of co-ownerships, etc.), exact cash payment limits, or maximum deadlines to claim the prize; these aspects are usually detailed in each draw’s rules and in general anti-money laundering regulations, which are not developed in the provided texts. No further information is available in the consulted sources on these material aspects.

Finally, it is worth distinguishing that part of the located regulations refer to ONCE gaming products, such as the Resolution of August 23, 2016 on the “ONCE Active Game” (active game regulation), or to labor agreements of lottery administrations (sectoral administration agreement, VII sectoral agreement, 2019 extension agreement), which do not directly regulate the requirements for prize collection by the player but internal sector aspects.