diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2a36c6fb1..621801447 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ Imports:
     utils
 Suggests:
     testthat (>= 3.2.0)
-VignetteBuilder:
-    knitr
 Config/Needs/website: insightsengineering/nesttemplate
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8