diff --git a/DetectorDescription/DetDescrCnvSvc/src/DetDescrCnvSvc.cxx b/DetectorDescription/DetDescrCnvSvc/src/DetDescrCnvSvc.cxx
index c0beb1e4b511613ec3eb1fe01b6a28cf97dd11d5..c5f9af64e3fa0524db9dfe18ea70609b4b3a81d6 100755
--- a/DetectorDescription/DetDescrCnvSvc/src/DetDescrCnvSvc.cxx
+++ b/DetectorDescription/DetDescrCnvSvc/src/DetDescrCnvSvc.cxx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-  Copyright (C) 2002-2021 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
+  Copyright (C) 2002-2020 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
 */
 
 // Include files
@@ -122,15 +122,6 @@ DetDescrCnvSvc::initialize()     {
 	log << MSG::INFO << "Found DetectorStore service" << endmsg;
     }
 
-    // Working around Gaudi Issue https://gitlab.cern.ch/gaudi/Gaudi/issues/82
-    if (m_detStore->FSMState() < Gaudi::StateMachine::INITIALIZED) {
-      log << MSG::INFO << "Explicitly initializing DetDescrCnvSvc" << endmsg;
-      if (m_detStore->sysInitialize().isFailure()) {
-	log << MSG::FATAL << "Error initializing DetectorStore !" << endmsg;
-	return StatusCode::FAILURE;
-      }
-    } 
-
     // fill in the Addresses for Transient Detector Store objects
 
     log << MSG::INFO << " filling proxies for detector managers " <<endmsg ;