diff --git a/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/MavenProjectTest.java b/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/MavenProjectTest.java
index fd0adeecb9..3a39d264cb 100644
--- a/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/MavenProjectTest.java
+++ b/maven-project/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/project/MavenProjectTest.java
@@ -156,30 +156,4 @@ public class MavenProjectTest
         MavenProject clonedProject = new MavenProject( projectToClone );
         assertNotNull( "clonedProject - distributionManagement", clonedProject.getDistributionManagementArtifactRepository() );
     }
-	
-	    
-	/**
-	 * 
-	 * Maven uses FileReaders by default to read POMs. 
-	 * @throws Exception
-	 */
-    public void testUTF8EncodedProject() throws Exception
-    {
-		File f = getFileForClasspathResource( "utf-8-encoded-pom.xml" );
-    		MavenProject utf8EncodedProject = getProject( f );
-    		
-    		assertEquals( "öäüß", utf8EncodedProject.getDescription() );
-    }
-
-	/**
-	 * This test case will not fail, because 8bit encodings won't corrupt the parser.
-	 * @throws Exception
-	 */
-    public void testISOEncodedProject() throws Exception
-    {
-		File f = getFileForClasspathResource( "iso-8859-15-encoded-pom.xml" );
-		MavenProject isoEncodedProject = getProject( f );
-		
-		assertEquals( "öäüß", isoEncodedProject.getDescription() );
-    }
 }
diff --git a/maven-project/src/test/resources/iso-8859-15-encoded-pom.xml b/maven-project/src/test/resources/iso-8859-15-encoded-pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ad9d67cb69..0000000000
--- a/maven-project/src/test/resources/iso-8859-15-encoded-pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>
-
-<project>
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <groupId>maven</groupId>
-  <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
-  <name>Maven</name>
-  <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  <description>öäüß</description>
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-plexus-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <plexusConfiguration>src/conf/plexus.conf</plexusConfiguration>
-          <plexusConfigurationPropertiesFile>src/conf/plexus.properties</plexusConfigurationPropertiesFile>
-          <plexusApplicationName>Continuum</plexusApplicationName>
-        </configuration>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>plexus:runtime</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <plexusApplicationName>ContinuumPro</plexusApplicationName>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-</project>
diff --git a/maven-project/src/test/resources/utf-8-encoded-pom.xml b/maven-project/src/test/resources/utf-8-encoded-pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9028732ce1..0000000000
--- a/maven-project/src/test/resources/utf-8-encoded-pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<project>
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <groupId>maven</groupId>
-  <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
-  <name>Maven</name>
-  <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  <description>öäüß</description>
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-plexus-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <plexusConfiguration>src/conf/plexus.conf</plexusConfiguration>
-          <plexusConfigurationPropertiesFile>src/conf/plexus.properties</plexusConfigurationPropertiesFile>
-          <plexusApplicationName>Continuum</plexusApplicationName>
-        </configuration>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>plexus:runtime</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <plexusApplicationName>ContinuumPro</plexusApplicationName>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-</project>