diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6af17bdc..834263a5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "jmespath~=1.0",
   "levenshtein~=0.26.1",
   "lxml==6.1.0",
-  "pandas~=2.1",
+  "pandas~=3.0",
   "pyRdfa3~=3.5",
   "pyld~=2.0",
   "pyyaml~=6.0",
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "tldextract~=5.0",
   "urlextract~=1.8",
   "pygithub~=2.1",
-  "numpy==1.26.4",
   "jsonschema<4.18"
 ]
 description = "FUJI (FAIRsFAIR Data Objects Assessment Service), A service to evaluate FAIR data objects based on FAIRsFAIR Metrics"