diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1a4d7c73..a2c6de2b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ and the versioning aims to respect [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/
   [#722](https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/open-MaStR/pull/722)
 
 ### Removed
+- Remove duplicated code in Mastr.download
+  [#727](https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/open-MaStR/pull/727)
 
 ## [v0.16.1] Hotfix - 2025-12-17
 
diff --git a/open_mastr/mastr.py b/open_mastr/mastr.py
index a6588c4f..fbb382db 100644
--- a/open_mastr/mastr.py
+++ b/open_mastr/mastr.py
@@ -239,15 +239,6 @@ def download(
             "or configure your own number of processes via os.environ['NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES'] = your_number\n"
         )
 
-        delete_zip_file_if_corrupted(zipped_xml_file_path)
-        delete_xml_files_not_from_given_date(zipped_xml_file_path, xml_folder_path)
-
-        print(
-            "\nWould you like to speed up the creation of your MaStR database?\n"
-            "Try our new parallelized processing by setting os.environ['USE_RECOMMENDED_NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES'] = True "
-            "or configure your own number of processes via os.environ['NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES'] = your_number\n"
-        )
-
         write_mastr_xml_to_database(
             engine=self.engine,
             zipped_xml_file_path=zipped_xml_file_path,