diff --git a/pmd-scala/pmd-scala-checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/pmd-scala/pmd-scala-checkstyle-suppressions.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index fea10110f4..0000000000
--- a/pmd-scala/pmd-scala-checkstyle-suppressions.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
-     "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.0//EN"
-     "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_0.dtd">
-<suppressions>
-    <suppress files="[\\/]generated-sources[\\/]" checks="[a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
-
-    <!-- Part of pmd-scala is under LGPL -->
-    <suppress checks="RegexpHeader" files="org[\\/]sonar[\\/]plugins[\\/]scala[\\/].*"/>
-</suppressions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pmd-scala/pom.xml b/pmd-scala/pom.xml
index 563ff485ac..6025d0692f 100644
--- a/pmd-scala/pom.xml
+++ b/pmd-scala/pom.xml
@@ -27,14 +27,6 @@
 					</delimiters>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
-
-			<plugin>
-				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-				<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-				<configuration>
-					<suppressionsLocation>pmd-scala-checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
-				</configuration>
-			</plugin>
 		</plugins>
 	</build>