diff --git a/build/org.eclipse.elk.targetplatform/pom.xml b/build/org.eclipse.elk.targetplatform/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f9f950dab..000000000
--- a/build/org.eclipse.elk.targetplatform/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  Copyright (c) 2019 Kiel University and others.
-  This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
-  terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at
-  http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
-  
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
--->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-  <version>0.10.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  <artifactId>org.eclipse.elk.targetplatform</artifactId>
-  <packaging>eclipse-target-definition</packaging>
-  <name>ELK Target Platform</name>
-
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.eclipse.elk</groupId>
-    <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-    <version>0.10.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-  </parent>
-
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <!-- Don't publish this artifact to Maven repositories. -->
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <skip>true</skip>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-</project>
diff --git a/build/pom.xml b/build/pom.xml
index a5088226f..251d9f435 100644
--- a/build/pom.xml
+++ b/build/pom.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@
       <id>elk-meta</id>
 
       <modules>
-        <module>org.eclipse.elk.targetplatform</module>
         <module>../plugins/org.eclipse.elk.graph</module>
         <module>../plugins/org.eclipse.elk.core.meta</module>
       </modules>
@@ -177,6 +176,11 @@
               <version>${elk-version}</version>
             </artifact>
           </target>
+          <target>
+            <!-- Replace multi module dir by basedir after Tycho 3.0+ can be used.
+                 see https://github.com/eclipse-tycho/tycho/issues/1660 -->
+            <file>${maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory}/org.eclipse.elk.targetplatform/org.eclipse.elk.targetplatform.target</file>
+          </target>
           <environments>
             <environment>
               <os>win32</os>
diff --git a/plugins/pom.xml b/plugins/pom.xml
index 2dd26f55b..07322eaa0 100644
--- a/plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/plugins/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
   <!-- all plugins need to be listed as module -->
   <modules>
-    <module>../build/org.eclipse.elk.targetplatform</module>
     <module>org.eclipse.elk.alg.common</module>
     <module>org.eclipse.elk.alg.disco</module>
     <module>org.eclipse.elk.alg.disco.debug</module>