Article 12 2.

Administrators of EU Paris-aligned Benchmarks shall exclude from those benchmarks any companies that are found or estimated by them or by external data providers to significantly harm one or more of the environmental objectives referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 3 ), in accordance with the rules on estimations laid down in Article 13(2) of this Regulation.