diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive/pom.xml b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive/pom.xml
index 388eeadb91..6d97e683a3 100644
--- a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive/pom.xml
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@
 				</exclusion>
 			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-cql</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>io.projectreactor</groupId>
 			<artifactId>reactor-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.provides b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.provides
index e914aa7894..baf0a5ef88 100644
--- a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.provides
+++ b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.provides
@@ -1 +1 @@
-provides: spring-data-cassandra, spring-cql
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+provides: spring-data-cassandra
\ No newline at end of file