diff --git a/Circular_kernel_2/include/CGAL/global_functions_on_circle_2.h b/Circular_kernel_2/include/CGAL/global_functions_on_circle_2.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 00908792dc2..00000000000
--- a/Circular_kernel_2/include/CGAL/global_functions_on_circle_2.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2003-2008  INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).
-// All rights reserved.
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org); you may redistribute it under
-// the terms of the Q Public License version 1.0.
-// See the file LICENSE.QPL distributed with CGAL.
-//
-// Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
-// accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
-//
-// This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
-// WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-//
-// Author(s)     : Monique Teillaud, Sylvain Pion, Pedro Machado
-
-// Partially supported by the IST Programme of the EU as a Shared-cost
-// RTD (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-2000-26473 
-// (ECG - Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces) 
-// and a STREP (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-006413 
-// (ACS -- Algorithms for Complex Shapes)
-
-#ifndef CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_GLOBAL_FUNCTIONS_ON_CIRCLE_2_H
-#define CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_GLOBAL_FUNCTIONS_ON_CIRCLE_2_H
-
-CGAL_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
-
-CGAL_END_NAMESPACE
-
-#endif // CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_GLOBAL_FUNCTIONS_ON_CIRCLE_2_H
diff --git a/Circular_kernel_2/include/CGAL/global_functions_on_line_2.h b/Circular_kernel_2/include/CGAL/global_functions_on_line_2.h
deleted file mode 100644
index b264cbe12c3..00000000000
--- a/Circular_kernel_2/include/CGAL/global_functions_on_line_2.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2003-2008  INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).
-// All rights reserved.
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org); you may redistribute it under
-// the terms of the Q Public License version 1.0.
-// See the file LICENSE.QPL distributed with CGAL.
-//
-// Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
-// accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
-//
-// This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
-// WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-//
-// Author(s)     : Monique Teillaud, Sylvain Pion, Pedro Machado
-
-// Partially supported by the IST Programme of the EU as a Shared-cost
-// RTD (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-2000-26473 
-// (ECG - Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces) 
-// and a STREP (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-006413 
-// (ACS -- Algorithms for Complex Shapes)
-
-#ifndef CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_GLOBAL_FUNCTIONS_ON_LINE_2_H
-#define CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_GLOBAL_FUNCTIONS_ON_LINE_2_H
-
-CGAL_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
-
-
-CGAL_END_NAMESPACE
-
-#endif // CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_GLOBAL_FUNCTIONS_ON_LINE_2_H