diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 063917c..d23a39e 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ export(removeInvalidDates)
 export(removeInvalidFlag)
 export(removeMissingEntry)
 export(removeNoInfo)
-export(removeNonExistingRecord)
 export(removeNonProtectedFlag)
 export(removeSingleEntryCountry)
 export(removeZeroConflict)
diff --git a/R/removeNonExistingRecord.R b/R/removeNonExistingRecord.R
deleted file mode 100644
index 059e711..0000000
--- a/R/removeNonExistingRecord.R
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-##' Function to remove non-existing record
-##'
-##' Sometimes non-existing records (observation status flag and method flag and
-##' value all NA) are returned by the database, or can be created by
-##' denormalising the data. This function removes these records.
-##'
-##' @param data The data containing non-existing record
-##' @param areaVar The column name corresponding to the geographic
-##'     area.
-##' @param itemVar The column name corresponding to the commodity
-##'     item.
-##' @param elementVar The column name corresponding to the measured
-##'     element.
-##' @param yearVar The column name corresponding to the year.
-##' @param flagObsVar The column name corresponding to the observation
-##'     status flag.
-##' @param flagMethodVar The column name corresponding to the method
-##'     flag.
-##' @param valueVar The column name corresponding to the value.
-##'
-##' @return Data with non-existing records omitted.
-##'
-##' @export
-##'
-
-removeNonExistingRecord = function(data,
-                                   areaVar = "geographicAreaM49",
-                                   itemVar = "measuredItemCPC",
-                                   elementVar = "measuredElement",
-                                   yearVar = "timePointYears",
-                                   flagObsVar = "flagObservationStatus",
-                                   flagMethodVar = "flagMethod",
-                                   valueVar = "Value"){
-    dataCopy = copy(data)
-
-    requiredColumn = c(areaVar, itemVar, elementVar, yearVar,
-                       flagObsVar, flagMethodVar, valueVar)
-    if(!all(requiredColumn %in% colnames(dataCopy)))
-        stop("Required column not in data, data has to be normalised!")
-
-    dataCopy[!is.na(dataCopy[[flagObsVar]]) & !is.na(dataCopy[[flagMethodVar]]), ]
-}
diff --git a/man/removeNonExistingRecord.Rd b/man/removeNonExistingRecord.Rd
deleted file mode 100644
index 6963110..0000000
--- a/man/removeNonExistingRecord.Rd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
-% Please edit documentation in R/removeNonExistingRecord.R
-\name{removeNonExistingRecord}
-\alias{removeNonExistingRecord}
-\title{Function to remove non-existing record}
-\usage{
-removeNonExistingRecord(data, areaVar = "geographicAreaM49",
-  itemVar = "measuredItemCPC", elementVar = "measuredElement",
-  yearVar = "timePointYears", flagObsVar = "flagObservationStatus",
-  flagMethodVar = "flagMethod", valueVar = "Value")
-}
-\arguments{
-\item{data}{The data containing non-existing record}
-
-\item{areaVar}{The column name corresponding to the geographic
-area.}
-
-\item{itemVar}{The column name corresponding to the commodity
-item.}
-
-\item{elementVar}{The column name corresponding to the measured
-element.}
-
-\item{yearVar}{The column name corresponding to the year.}
-
-\item{flagObsVar}{The column name corresponding to the observation
-status flag.}
-
-\item{flagMethodVar}{The column name corresponding to the method
-flag.}
-
-\item{valueVar}{The column name corresponding to the value.}
-}
-\value{
-Data with non-existing records omitted.
-}
-\description{
-Sometimes non-existing records (observation status flag and method flag and
-value all NA) are returned by the database, or can be created by
-denormalising the data. This function removes these records.
-}
-