diff --git a/Reconstruction/PanTau/PanTauEvent/PanTauEvent/TauFeature.h b/Reconstruction/PanTau/PanTauEvent/PanTauEvent/TauFeature.h
index b49130b9ca31c014d828485e16755d52daf46c6f..44cb7ff170ae41185a8494582627ecc9e3782da0 100644
--- a/Reconstruction/PanTau/PanTauEvent/PanTauEvent/TauFeature.h
+++ b/Reconstruction/PanTau/PanTauEvent/PanTauEvent/TauFeature.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
 */
 
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public:
 //         );
 
     /** Destructor */
-    virtual ~TauFeature();
+    ~TauFeature() = default;
 
     /** returns the value of the feature given by its name*/
     double value(const std::string& ItsName, bool& isValid) const;
diff --git a/Reconstruction/PanTau/PanTauEvent/src/TauFeature.cxx b/Reconstruction/PanTau/PanTauEvent/src/TauFeature.cxx
index 388ee6436239265aa3561c52c11b14042537bf9f..5e7898387974b2c9d0bd6a92e025e61a4c22bece 100644
--- a/Reconstruction/PanTau/PanTauEvent/src/TauFeature.cxx
+++ b/Reconstruction/PanTau/PanTauEvent/src/TauFeature.cxx
@@ -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
 */
 
 #include "PanTauEvent/TauFeature.h"
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@ PanTau::TauFeature::TauFeature()
 
 
 
-PanTau::TauFeature::~TauFeature()
-{
-}
-
-
 double PanTau::TauFeature::value(const std::string& ItsName, bool& isValid) const
 {
     FeatureMapConstIter iter = m_featureMap.find(ItsName);