diff --git a/templates/CODEOWNERS_TEMPLATE b/templates/CODEOWNERS_TEMPLATE
index 07d0370..d58a771 100644
--- a/templates/CODEOWNERS_TEMPLATE
+++ b/templates/CODEOWNERS_TEMPLATE
@@ -11,8 +11,3 @@
 # Owners of the CODEOWNER and Maintainer.md files are the admins of CAMARA (to allow them to keep the teams within the CAMARA organization in sync in case of changes)
 /CODEOWNERS @camaraproject/admins
 /MAINTAINERS.MD @camaraproject/admins
-
-# The following lines ensure that the release-management_reviewers team will automatically added as reviewers
-# if a pull requests is changing the CHANGELOG file (aka "release PR") and that such PRs can only be merged with an approval from a team member.
-/CHANGELOG.MD @camaraproject/release-management_reviewers
-/CHANGELOG.md @camaraproject/release-management_reviewers