diff --git a/SAS/SpecificationServices/lib/lofarxml_to_momxml_translator.py b/SAS/SpecificationServices/lib/lofarxml_to_momxml_translator.py
index 20df9427b1db869fc4468cea9341410ea2bc0687..daafa83c58d6cae8c0d45f0fe1e8e8a080fda469 100644
--- a/SAS/SpecificationServices/lib/lofarxml_to_momxml_translator.py
+++ b/SAS/SpecificationServices/lib/lofarxml_to_momxml_translator.py
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ class LofarXmlToMomXmlTranslator():
             return activityparents, activity_topologygroup, activity_topologymyid
 
         except Exception as err:
-            logger.error("Error occurred while creating folder hierarchy -> " + str(err.message))
+            logger.error("Error occurred while creating folder hierarchy -> " + str(err))
             raise
 
     def _create_topology(self, header = None, groupid = None, myid = None, slice = None, function = None, sap = None, dptype = None):
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ class LofarXmlToMomXmlTranslator():
             # json = dumps(loads(json)['extraspec'])  # remove parent element
             return json
         except Exception as err:
-            logger.error("Error while encoding MoM extraspecs -> " + str(err.message))
+            logger.error("Error while encoding MoM extraspecs -> " + str(err))
             raise
 
     def _remove_removable_elements(self, momact):