diff --git a/Reconstruction/tauEvent/tauEvent/tauAnalysisHelperObject.h b/Reconstruction/tauEvent/tauEvent/tauAnalysisHelperObject.h
index 143e604ef2569a51a3055a25684225a7eba2adeb..ad9ee637b2e56b83785ecd518944b46c23043f9d 100644
--- a/Reconstruction/tauEvent/tauEvent/tauAnalysisHelperObject.h
+++ b/Reconstruction/tauEvent/tauEvent/tauAnalysisHelperObject.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-  Copyright (C) 2002-2017 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
+  Copyright (C) 2002-2018 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
 */
 
 ///@file tauAnalysisHelperObject.h  DEPRECATED DO NOT USE 
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ class tauAnalysisHelperObject
         typedef ElementLinkVector<CaloCellContainer>               tauCellColl_type;
         typedef tauCellColl_type::iterator                         tauCellColl_iterator;
 
-        tauAnalysisHelperObject() {};
-        virtual ~tauAnalysisHelperObject() {};
+        tauAnalysisHelperObject() = default;
+        ~tauAnalysisHelperObject() = default;
 
         /** @name Analysis Helper
          *  set by tauAnalysisHelper::execute()