diff --git a/Generators/EvgenJobTransforms/share/LHEonly.py b/Generators/EvgenJobTransforms/share/LHEonly.py
index 0a30cfb14c01c0e0208bcbbe943c29568bca7cbf..5b952e287641729e3b9ac042aeb1f2faa7e933d8 100644
--- a/Generators/EvgenJobTransforms/share/LHEonly.py
+++ b/Generators/EvgenJobTransforms/share/LHEonly.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Common fragment for generation of 1 Pythia8 event, when producing LHE output only
-# the number of events is set to 1 in two places: as Pythia param: Main:numberOfEvents = 1 and evgenconfig.nEventsPerJob=1 (the later one is stronger)
+# the number of events is set to 1 in two places: as Pythia param: Main:numberOfEvents = 1 and postSeq.CountHepMC.RequestedOutput=1 (the later one is stronger)
 # It is needed to make the transform run
+# we don't modify nEventsPerJob anymore, which now corresponds to the number of events in the output lhe file
 # No output is kept from this generation
 ## Base config for Pythia8
 
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ genSeq += Pythia8_i("Pythia8")
 
 genSeq.Pythia8.Commands += [
     "Main:timesAllowErrors = 500",
-    "Main:numberOfEvents = 1",
+    "Main:numberOfEvents = 1",### first place for number of dummy events
     "6:m0 = 172.5",
     "23:m0 = 91.1876",
     "23:mWidth = 2.4952",
@@ -41,7 +42,15 @@ genSeq.Pythia8.Commands += [
     "SoftQCD:inelastic = on",
     "SpaceShower:rapidityOrder=0"]
 
-evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob = 1
+### second place for number of dummy events
+if not hasattr(postSeq, "CountHepMC"):
+    postSeq += CountHepMC()
+postSeq.CountHepMC.RequestedOutput = 1
+
+### we don't modify nEventsPerJob, it'll correspond to the number of events in the output lhe file
+#evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob = 1
+
+### deleting TestHepMC for lhe-only production
 del testSeq.TestHepMC
 
 
diff --git a/Generators/EvgenJobTransforms/share/skel.GENtoTXT.py b/Generators/EvgenJobTransforms/share/skel.GENtoTXT.py
index b55d22c64c8fd15ea2a59db99c5d952c8701db0d..4780ef220a7304cf29768399b8f930c7b96042ba 100644
--- a/Generators/EvgenJobTransforms/share/skel.GENtoTXT.py
+++ b/Generators/EvgenJobTransforms/share/skel.GENtoTXT.py
@@ -316,23 +316,11 @@ if evgenConfig.minevents > 0 :
            
 if evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob < 1:
     raise RuntimeError("evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob must be at least 1")
-elif evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob > 100000:
+elif evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob > 100000:# limitation to 100k events per output lhe file
     raise RuntimeError("evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob can be max. 100000")
 else:
-    allowed_nEventsPerJob_lt1000 = [1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000]
-    msg = "evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob = %d: " % evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob
-    
-    if evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob >= 1000 and evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob <=10000 and (evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob % 1000 != 0 or 10000 % evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob != 0) :
-           msg += "nEventsPerJob in range [1K, 10K] must be a multiple of 1K and a divisor of 10K"
-           raise RuntimeError(msg)
-    elif evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob > 10000  and evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob % 10000 != 0:
-           msg += "nEventsPerJob >10K must be a multiple of 10K"
-           raise RuntimeError(msg)
-    elif evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob < 1000 and evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob not in allowed_nEventsPerJob_lt1000:
-           msg += "nEventsPerJob in range <= 1000 must be one of %s" % allowed_nEventsPerJob_lt1000
-           raise RuntimeError(msg)
-    postSeq.CountHepMC.RequestedOutput = evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob if runArgs.maxEvents == -1  else runArgs.maxEvents
-    evgenLog.info('Requested output events '+str(postSeq.CountHepMC.RequestedOutput))
+    evgenLog.info("evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob = {}, but only {} (dummy) event(s) will be generated by Pythia8 for lhe-only production".format(evgenConfig.nEventsPerJob, postSeq.CountHepMC.RequestedOutput))
+### NB: postSeq.CountHepMC.RequestedOutput is set to 1 in LHEonly.py
 
 
 ## Check that the keywords list is not empty: