diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
index 1bdad8b66af306cb79515d2a032801c1c8d6ec32..c70ada70c414e9c4b99cbde96a2f224880ea9f36 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ def useCaseProjects = subprojects.findAll {it -> it.name.matches('uc(.)*')}
 def useCaseApplications = subprojects.findAll {it -> it.name.matches('uc[0-9]+-application')}
 def useCaseApplicationsFlink = subprojects.findAll {it -> it.name.matches('uc[0-9]+-application-flink')}
 def useCaseGenerators = subprojects.findAll {it -> it.name.matches('uc[0-9]+-workload-generator*')}
-def commonProjects = subprojects.findAll {it -> it.name.matches('(.)*commons(.)*')}
-def flinkCommon = subprojects.findAll {it -> it.name.matches('(.)*commons(.)*')}
 
 // Plugins
 allprojects {
@@ -155,20 +153,6 @@ configure(useCaseGenerators) {
   }
 }
 
-// Dependencies for all commons
-/*configure(commonProjects) {
-  dependencies {
-      // These dependencies are used internally, and not exposed to consumers on their own compile classpath.
-      implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.25'
-      implementation('org.industrial-devops:titan-ccp-common:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT') { changing = true }
-      implementation('org.industrial-devops:titan-ccp-common-kafka:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT') { changing = true }
-      implementation 'org.apache.kafka:kafka-streams:2.6.0'
-
-      // Use JUnit test framework
-      testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
-  }
-}*/
-
 // Per default XML reports for SpotBugs are generated
 // Include this to generate HTML reports
 tasks.withType(com.github.spotbugs.snom.SpotBugsTask) {