diff --git a/Geometry/HGCalCommonData/plugins/DDHGCalCell.cc b/Geometry/HGCalCommonData/plugins/DDHGCalCell.cc
index 7797d6446db32..7773b8bfc6705 100644
--- a/Geometry/HGCalCommonData/plugins/DDHGCalCell.cc
+++ b/Geometry/HGCalCommonData/plugins/DDHGCalCell.cc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 
-#define EDM_ML_DEBUG
+//#define EDM_ML_DEBUG
 
 class DDHGCalCell : public DDAlgorithm {
 public:
diff --git a/Geometry/HGCalCommonData/plugins/dd4hep/DDHGCalCell.cc b/Geometry/HGCalCommonData/plugins/dd4hep/DDHGCalCell.cc
index 3a5f9ebbbecaa..991ce2ee684e8 100644
--- a/Geometry/HGCalCommonData/plugins/dd4hep/DDHGCalCell.cc
+++ b/Geometry/HGCalCommonData/plugins/dd4hep/DDHGCalCell.cc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #include "FWCore/MessageLogger/interface/MessageLogger.h"
 #include "FWCore/Utilities/interface/Exception.h"
 
-#define EDM_ML_DEBUG
+//#define EDM_ML_DEBUG
 
 static long algorithm(dd4hep::Detector& /* description */, cms::DDParsingContext& ctxt, xml_h e) {
   cms::DDNamespace ns(ctxt, e, true);