diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e8df081..dbc2a26 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ruamel.yaml<0.15
 requests>=2.3.0
-#apache-ariatosca==0.1.1
-stevedore >= 1.9.0
+stevedore>=1.9.0
 udatetime<1.0,>=0.0.16
 nfv-toscaparser<2.0,>=1.0.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3e0f38f..21cad65 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@
         else:
             install_requires.append(requirement)
 
-extras_require['aria'] = 'apache-ariatosca==0.1.1'
-
 version = { }
 with open(os.path.join(root_dir, 'vnfsdk_pkgtools/version.py')) as fp:
     exec(fp.read(), version)
@@ -86,7 +84,6 @@
         'console_scripts': [
             'vnfsdk = vnfsdk_pkgtools.cli.__main__:main'],
         'vnfsdk.pkgtools.validator': [
-            'aria = vnfsdk_pkgtools.validator.aria_validator:AriaValidator [aria]',
             'toscaparser = vnfsdk_pkgtools.validator.toscaparser_validator:ToscaparserValidator',
         ]
     },
diff --git a/tests/validator/test_aria_validator.py b/tests/validator/test_aria_validator.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6570e12..0000000
--- a/tests/validator/test_aria_validator.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2018 Intel Corp. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-
-import os
-
-from vnfsdk_pkgtools.packager import csar
-from vnfsdk_pkgtools.validator import aria_validator
-
-CSAR_PATH = 'tests/resources/test_import.csar'
-
-def test_validate(tmpdir):
-    reader = csar._CSARReader(CSAR_PATH, str(tmpdir.mkdir('validate')))
-    validator = aria_validator.AriaValidator()
-    validator.validate(reader)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index efdc361..b4e2212 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 
 [testenv:py27]
 commands =
-        pip install 'apache-ariatosca==0.1.1'
         coverage run --module pytest --junitxml xunit-results.xml tests/
         coverage xml --omit=".tox/py27/*","tests/*"
         coverage report --omit=".tox/py27/*","tests/*"
diff --git a/vnfsdk_pkgtools/validator/aria_validator.py b/vnfsdk_pkgtools/validator/aria_validator.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e84d017..0000000
--- a/vnfsdk_pkgtools/validator/aria_validator.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017 Intel Corp. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-
-import os
-
-from aria import install_aria_extensions
-from aria.parser.loading import UriLocation
-from aria.parser.consumption import (
-    ConsumptionContext,
-    ConsumerChain,
-    Read,
-    Validate,
-    ServiceTemplate,
-    ServiceInstance
-)
-
-from vnfsdk_pkgtools import validator
-
-
-class AriaValidator(validator.ValidatorBase):
-    def __init__(self):
-        super(AriaValidator, self).__init__()
-        install_aria_extensions()
-
-    def validate(self, reader):
-        context = ConsumptionContext()
-        service_template_path = os.path.join(reader.destination,
-                                             reader.entry_definitions)
-        context.presentation.location = UriLocation(service_template_path)
-        print(reader.entry_definitions_yaml)
-        chain = ConsumerChain(context, (Read, Validate, ServiceTemplate, ServiceInstance))
-        chain.consume()
-        if context.validation.dump_issues():
-            raise RuntimeError('Validation failed')
-        dumper = chain.consumers[-1]
-        dumper.dump()
-