diff --git a/tangostationcontrol/tangostationcontrol/toolkit/retriever.py b/tangostationcontrol/tangostationcontrol/toolkit/retriever.py
index 3bade2c799c32d81b44a60e12f04bf971276c313..d62975fd4d3e83108e604905aa4eaac71335afe2 100644
--- a/tangostationcontrol/tangostationcontrol/toolkit/retriever.py
+++ b/tangostationcontrol/tangostationcontrol/toolkit/retriever.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python3
 
-from tango import DeviceProxy, AttributeProxy
 from tangostationcontrol.toolkit.archiver_util import get_db_config, split_tango_name
 
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod