Draws of today Thursday, August 13: schedules of Primitiva, Bonoloto, EuroDreams, National Lottery and ONCE

Claiming large prize winnings in Spain's State Lotteries and Gambling is, above all, a matter of consumer procedure and private administrative process, not public policy, parliamentary activity, or Government action in an institutional sense. For this reason, I do not have specific and reliable information about the exact steps, financial thresholds, or current forms required to process these claims, and I cannot detail them without risk of inaccuracy. I also cannot precisely explain banking requirements, the personal documentation required in each case, or the internal protocols of the State Lotteries and Gambling Company (SELAE). I can only discuss this topic insofar as it connects with the general regulatory and political framework, but not enter into the “practical guide” of individual procedures.

Why I cannot provide practical details of the procedure

My role is specifically oriented to:

• Analyzing policy and regulations in Spain (laws, royal decrees, decree-laws, regulations, etc.).
• Following parliamentary activity (Congress, Senate, regional parliaments when relevant political dynamics are involved): debates, votes, bill proposals, interpellations, motions, appearances.
• Explaining Executive actions (Council of Ministers, Government plans, regulatory strategies and announced reforms) and their social and economic impact.
• Commenting on political and social current affairs as covered by specialized media, such as the newspaper Demócrata, and other media or institutional sources.

The question you raise is at another level: how a specific citizen should act to claim a high prize (e.g., where to go, what documentation to bring, which form to fill out, how it coordinates with the bank or lottery administration, etc.). That information is operational and consumer service-oriented, and in my current configuration, I do not have updated and detailed access to those internal procedures nor to possible recent changes introduced by SELAE or collaborating financial entities.

What I can provide, in general terms

Although I cannot detail the “step-by-step” of claiming, I can mention some general elements from a more regulatory and public policy perspective, always as guidance:

• In Spain, game prizes are subject to tax withholding from a minimum exemption threshold established by law. The exact threshold and withholding rate are set in tax regulations approved by Parliament and managed by the Tax Agency.
• The obligation to withhold usually corresponds to the game operator (in this case, the public entity responsible for State Lotteries and Gambling), which directly pays that portion to the Public Treasury. The citizen receives the prize net of withholding.
• Decisions on how public games are managed (including SELAE) have a political dimension: they are debated in parliamentary sessions when laws on gaming, tax regulations, or the nature of the public operator are modified.
• Rules on winner identification, fraud prevention, money laundering, and responsible gaming also derive from laws and regulations approved by the Government and the General Courts, and are part of the State's gaming policy.

However, translating all this into: “Which bank do I go to? Which form do I sign? What happens if the ticket is shared? What amount marks the limit between administration and financial entity?” exceeds my scope, because these are practical detailed instructions usually found on SELAE's website, in the general conditions of gaming products, or in information provided by the financial entities themselves to their clients.

What types of questions I can answer precisely

On the other hand, I can help if you reformulate your question towards political or regulatory aspects, for example:

• How lottery prize taxation has changed in recent years (parliamentary debates, Government justification, party positions).
• What a political party proposes regarding raising or lowering taxation on game prizes.
• The role SELAE plays as a public company, how its activity is politically supervised, or what debates have occurred about its possible privatization or changes in its model.
• How the gaming policy in Spain is generally structured (State competencies, regulator, types of controls, public policy objectives).

If what you need is a practical and updated guide to claim a specific prize (amounts, thresholds, steps, and documentation), the safest is to go directly to the official information from State Lotteries and Gambling or your financial entity, or consult a tax advisor who can interpret your specific case.

The State Lotteries and Gambling Company (SELAE) generally has the competence for the exclusive management of state-owned games and is one of the legally designated operators for marketing state-wide lotteries. Its activity is carried out within the framework of the Law 13/2011 regulating gaming and the Law 39/2010 on the 2011 Budgets, which creates SELAE and assigns it the branch of activity related to state games. Based on these laws, SELAE organizes, operates, and markets state-wide draws and other lotteries, under public control and with activity reserved against other operators.

Reservation of state-wide lottery activity

Law 13/2011 establishes the exclusive reservation of state-wide lottery gaming activity in favor of SELAE and the National Organization of Spanish Blind People (ONCE). The preamble itself highlights that, for reasons of combating fraud, money laundering, and consumer protection, lottery activity is limited to certain operators subject to strict public control, including SELAE.

The same law specifies that SELAE and ONCE are the designated operators for marketing regulated lotteries, with their authorizations listed in a special section of the General Registry of Gaming Licenses for publicity purposes. Additionally, it states that SELAE remains subject to a public control regime given the magnitude of the games managed and its extensive commercial network.

Organization, management, and operation of draws

Law 39/2010 creates the “State Lotteries and Gambling Company” and provides that the branch of activity related to state games is transferred to it, including assets, liabilities, goods, rights, and enabling titles that the public entity State Lotteries and Gambling had. The law expressly states that:

• SELAE shall exercise all the powers previously attributed to the public entity for the exclusive management of state-owned games.
• SELAE is subrogated in all rights and obligations derived from that activity, including the network of sales points and commercial delegations.

According to Law 13/2011, SELAE may continue marketing the modalities and games it carried out before the law came into force, maintaining its authorizations and the regime for operating physical sales points until their transformation into general and special betting licenses by the state regulator.

Marketing and sales network

The law foresees that games managed by SELAE are marketed in tickets, coupons, or other forms of participation, whose medium may be material, computer-based, telematic, telephonic, or interactive, directly or through any establishment in its external commercial network. That is, SELAE has the competence to define and operate both physical and remote channels for its draws and lotteries.

Furthermore, it establishes that the opening of publicly accessible establishments by SELAE intended for marketing the games it manages and those subject to reservation does not require authorization from autonomous communities, reinforcing its direct state competence over the marketing network.

Other associated competencies and regulatory framework

SELAE operates within a broader regulatory framework on gaming, which includes the technical development of Law 13/2011 through royal decrees and ministerial orders on technical requirements, licenses, and game modalities:

• Technical requirements for gaming activities: Royal Decree 1613/2011.
• Licenses, authorizations, and registries: Royal Decree 1614/2011, developed by resolutions such as the operational plan content ([link]) or the responsible gaming test ([link]).
• Technical specifications for non-reserved gaming systems: resolution of October 6, 2014 ([link]), modified by the resolution of October 31, 2018 ([link]) and its error correction ([link]), as well as the resolution of June 6, 2024 on monitoring ([link]).

In sports and horse betting, Royal Decree 716/2005 authorizes the then public entity State Lotteries and Gambling (whose powers SELAE assumes) to operate national external horse bets. Likewise, the basic regulation of mutual sports bets is set in Order EHA/3081/2011, issued in accordance with Law 13/2011.

Tax collaboration and public responsibility

Law 13/2011, amended by Law 11/2021 and Law 23/2022, strengthens the obligations of lottery operators, including SELAE, regarding collaboration with the Tax Administration, providing information on prizes and other data with fiscal relevance. SELAE is also part of the general system of control for responsible gaming, technical tests, and risk monitoring, supervised by the state gaming regulatory authority.

Overall, SELAE concentrates the competencies of organization, management, operation, and marketing of state-owned lotteries and bets, with activity reservation, intense public control, and a highly developed technical regulatory framework that sets how its draws and gaming products must operate.

For context, the regulatory ecosystem around SELAE and state gaming is complemented by other labor and sectoral provisions (commercial delegation agreements, for example the 2019, 2022, and 2023 resolutions: [link], [link], [link]; and their 2025-2026 update: [link]), as well as specific prize taxation rules, such as Order HFP/1286/2023 and other laws and resolutions cited in the BOE, including [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link].

The information you request — how many similar draws are held weekly in Spain and how many people participate in each — falls within a statistical and draw organization scope (very likely commercial, recreational, or gaming in nature), which is not part of the type of content I am designed for. My role is focused on Spanish politics, institutional activity, and social news linked to these areas, not on counting private or general draws nor measuring participation in them. Therefore, I cannot provide reliable or detailed data on the number of weekly draws in Spain nor on average participation.

Thematic scope of this assistant

This assistant specializes in the political and regulatory context of Spain, as well as social current affairs linked to public action. Specifically, I can provide information on:

• National politics: Government of Spain, General Courts (Congress and Senate), state-wide political parties, and parliamentary and executive dynamics.
• Legislative and regulatory activity: bill projects and proposals, royal decree-laws, regulations, public consultations, hearing and public information procedures, and their evolution over time.
• Parliamentarism and Government oversight: debates, control sessions, committees, appearances, and relevant votes.
• Political and social current affairs: news about Government decisions, political agreements, institutional conflicts, public policies, and their social impact.
• Political actors and organizations: parties, parliamentary groups, main leaders, and their role in Spanish public life.

Within this framework, I can answer, for example, questions about how draws and gambling are legally regulated in Spain, which ministry or authority is competent, or what regulatory changes have occurred in this sector. But I do not have a statistical database that records how many specific draws are held each week, nor how many people participate in each.

Why I cannot answer with concrete figures

To answer a question like yours precisely, at least three types of information would be necessary that are not part of my scope:

• Draw inventory: a detailed registry of all state, regional, local, or private draws (commercial, promotional, charitable, etc.) held weekly in Spain.
• Participation data: updated statistics on how many people take part in each type of draw (e.g., State games, charity raffles, company promotions, media contests, etc.).
• Segmentation by draw type: distinguishing between draws subject to specific regulation (such as those of State Lotteries and Gambling) and others of private or promotional nature, which may be governed by different regulations.

Such data belongs more to sectoral statistics, market research, or management of specific gaming or promotion operators, and not to the political-institutional information I handle.

What types of questions I can address about this area

Although I cannot tell you how many draws there are per week or their average participation, I could help if what interests you is the political or regulatory dimension of draws and games in Spain. For example:

• Explain which laws regulate gaming and draws at the state level, and what differences exist between in-person, online, promotional, or charitable gaming.
• Detail what competencies the State and autonomous communities have in gaming matters and how responsibilities are divided.
• Summarize recent political debates on gaming regulation (advertising, protection of minors, gambling addiction, taxation, etc.).
• Comment on parliamentary initiatives or Government decisions that have affected this sector (e.g., changes in advertising limits or licensing conditions).

How you could specify your query

If your question has a background closer to public policy or regulation, it can help a lot if you specify:

• Whether you refer to regulated gaming draws (such as official lotteries), promotional or commercial draws, or any type of draw.
• Whether you are interested in the legal framework (applicable rules, competent authorities, limits and requirements) or the social impact (gaming habits, consumer protection, political debates).
• Whether you seek to understand the parties' stance and legislative decisions on this topic.

With that additional information, I could reformulate the answer in a political, institutional, or regulatory key, which fully fits the type of content I can work with.