diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkCreateSimRels.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkCreateSimRels.java
index e6e8c745c7..fa9bd39bed 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkCreateSimRels.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkCreateSimRels.java
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ public class SparkCreateSimRels extends AbstractSparkAction {
 			final String outputPath = DedupUtility.createSimRelPath(workingPath, actionSetId, subEntity);
 			removeOutputDir(spark, outputPath);
 
+			JavaSparkContext sc = JavaSparkContext.fromSparkContext(spark.sparkContext());
+
 			SparkDedupConfig sparkConfig = new SparkDedupConfig(dedupConf, numPartitions);
 
 			Dataset<?> simRels = spark