diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index 32356e8a6..be54f149c 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
 
     Copyright (c) 2015 Bosch Software Innovations GmbH and others.
@@ -8,7 +7,8 @@
     which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
     http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 
---><project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
    <parent>