We prove that if a flow exhibits a partially hyperbolic attractor Λ with splitting T Λ M = E s ⊕ E c and two periodic saddles with different indices such that the stable index of one of them coincides with the dimension of E s then it does not satisfy the specification property. In particular, every singular-hyperbolic attractor with the specification property is hyperbolic. As an application, we prove that no Lorenz attractor satisfies the specification property.1 for t ≥ 0. Now, take a small t 2 > 0 such thatz)) ≤ 2L 0 ε} and t 0 = inf I. By (3.21), (3.25) and (3.26) we have T ∈ I. Assume that t 0 > 0. Sinceby (3.21) and (3.26) we have t 0 − t 2 ∈ I, which is a contradiction. Thus 0 = inf I. ThereforeThe proposition follows taking L = 3L 0 . Lemma 3.10. Let p ∈ Λ be a hyperbolic critical element with dim W ss (p) = dim E s p and U be a subdisk of W u (p) with U ⊂ W u (p). Then there exists µ > 0 such that A(U ) := z∈U F s µ (z) is homeomorphic to U × [−µ, µ] dim E s .