diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/interfaces/ScriptGenerator.java b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/interfaces/ScriptGenerator.java
index b5e6481b..f45ee05e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/interfaces/ScriptGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/interfaces/ScriptGenerator.java
@@ -78,8 +78,17 @@ public PathExpression composeNodeReferenceWithPredicate(
   public PathExpression composeFieldReferenceWithPredicate(
       final PathExpression fieldReference, final BooleanExpression predicate);
 
-  public PathExpression composeFieldReferenceWithAxis(final PathExpression fieldReference,
-      final String axis);
+  /**
+   * Applies an XPath axis to a field reference.
+   *
+   * @deprecated Axis syntax has been removed from EFX-2. This method is only used by EFX-1
+   *     and will be removed in a future version.
+   */
+  @Deprecated(forRemoval = true)
+  default PathExpression composeFieldReferenceWithAxis(final PathExpression fieldReference,
+      final String axis) {
+    return fieldReference;
+  }
 
   /**
    * Given a PathExpression, this method should return the target language script for retrieving the
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/xpath/XPathScriptGeneratorV1.java b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/xpath/XPathScriptGeneratorV1.java
index 6f696442..a129ad86 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/xpath/XPathScriptGeneratorV1.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/xpath/XPathScriptGeneratorV1.java
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ public XPathScriptGeneratorV1(TranslatorOptions translatorOptions) {
         super(translatorOptions);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public PathExpression composeFieldReferenceWithAxis(final PathExpression fieldReference,
+        final String axis) {
+        String resultXPath = XPathProcessor.addAxis(axis, fieldReference.getScript());
+        return Expression.instantiate(resultXPath, fieldReference.getClass());
+    }
+
     @Override
     public StringExpression composeToStringConversion(NumericExpression number) {
         String formatString = this.translatorOptions.getDecimalFormat().adaptFormatString("0.##########");
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk2/EfxExpressionTranslatorV2.java b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk2/EfxExpressionTranslatorV2.java
index 8f626f8f..acf7f24c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk2/EfxExpressionTranslatorV2.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk2/EfxExpressionTranslatorV2.java
@@ -269,14 +269,14 @@ protected String getFieldId(AbsoluteFieldReferenceContext ctx) {
     if (ctx == null) {
       return null;
     }
-    return this.getFieldId(ctx.reference.reference.linkedFieldReference());
+    return this.getFieldId(ctx.reference.reference);
   }
 
   protected String getFieldId(FieldReferenceInOtherNoticeContext ctx) {
     if (ctx == null) {
       return null;
     }
-    return this.getFieldId(ctx.reference.reference.reference.reference.reference.linkedFieldReference());
+    return this.getFieldId(ctx.reference.reference.reference.reference.reference);
   }
 
   protected String getFieldId(FieldContextContext ctx) {
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ protected String getFieldId(FieldReferenceWithPredicateContext ctx) {
     if (ctx == null) {
       return null;
     }
-    return this.getFieldId(ctx.fieldReferenceWithAxis().linkedFieldReference());
+    return this.getFieldId(ctx.linkedFieldReference());
   }
 
   protected static String getNodeId(NodeReferenceContext ctx) {
@@ -1315,14 +1315,6 @@ public void exitPredicate(PredicateContext ctx) {
     this.efxContext.pop();
   }
 
-  @Override
-  public void exitFieldReferenceWithAxis(FieldReferenceWithAxisContext ctx) {
-    if (ctx.axis() != null) {
-      this.stack.push(this.script.composeFieldReferenceWithAxis(
-          this.stack.pop(PathExpression.class), ctx.axis().Axis().getText()));
-    }
-  }
-
   // #endregion References with Predicates ------------------------------------
 
   // #region External References ----------------------------------------------
diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/xpath/XPathScriptGenerator.java b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/xpath/XPathScriptGenerator.java
index 4ad7741e..f1e8fbd9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/xpath/XPathScriptGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/xpath/XPathScriptGenerator.java
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 
 import eu.europa.ted.eforms.sdk.component.SdkComponent;
 import eu.europa.ted.eforms.sdk.component.SdkComponentType;
-import eu.europa.ted.eforms.xpath.XPathProcessor;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.interfaces.ScriptGenerator;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.interfaces.TranslatorOptions;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.expressions.Expression;
@@ -96,13 +95,6 @@ public PathExpression composeFieldReferenceWithPredicate(PathExpression fieldRef
     return Expression.instantiate(fieldReference.getScript() + '[' + predicate.getScript() + ']', fieldReference.getClass());
   }
 
-  @Override
-  public PathExpression composeFieldReferenceWithAxis(final PathExpression fieldReference,
-      final String axis) {
-    String resultXPath = XPathProcessor.addAxis(axis, fieldReference.getScript());
-    return Expression.instantiate(resultXPath, fieldReference.getClass());
-  }
-
   @Override
   public PathExpression composeFieldValueReference(PathExpression fieldReference) {
     if (fieldReference.is(EfxDataType.String.class)) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk2/EfxExpressionTranslatorV2Test.java b/src/test/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk2/EfxExpressionTranslatorV2Test.java
index c608ed41..02b26df1 100644
--- a/src/test/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk2/EfxExpressionTranslatorV2Test.java
+++ b/src/test/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk2/EfxExpressionTranslatorV2Test.java
@@ -1225,12 +1225,6 @@ void testFieldReference_ForDurationFields() {
         "ND-Root", "BT-00-Measure");
   }
 
-  @Test
-  void testFieldReference_WithAxis() {
-    testExpressionTranslationWithContext("./preceding::PathNode/IntegerField/number()", "ND-Root",
-        "ND-Root::preceding::integerField");
-  }
-
   /**
    * Unlike EFX-1, where any reference to a text-multilingual field, is automatically translated to
    * an expression that returns the value of the field in the preferred language, in EFX-2 there are