diff --git a/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/OpenTelemetryInstaller.java b/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/OpenTelemetryInstaller.java
index 9762f0ee3460..4623f3ae083a 100644
--- a/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/OpenTelemetryInstaller.java
+++ b/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/OpenTelemetryInstaller.java
@@ -5,22 +5,14 @@
 
 package io.opentelemetry.javaagent.tooling;
 
-import static io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.config.DeclarativeConfigProperties.empty;
-
 import io.opentelemetry.api.GlobalOpenTelemetry;
-import io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.ExtendedOpenTelemetry;
-import io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.config.ConfigProvider;
-import io.opentelemetry.api.incubator.config.DeclarativeConfigProperties;
 import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.config.bridge.ConfigPropertiesBackedConfigProvider;
-import io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.config.bridge.DeclarativeConfigPropertiesBridgeBuilder;
 import io.opentelemetry.javaagent.bootstrap.OpenTelemetrySdkAccess;
-import io.opentelemetry.javaagent.tooling.config.EarlyInitAgentConfig;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.OpenTelemetrySdk;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.SdkAutoconfigureAccess;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.internal.AutoConfigureUtil;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.spi.ConfigProperties;
-import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.spi.ConfigurationException;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.common.CompletableResultCode;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
@@ -48,11 +40,6 @@ public static AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk installOpenTelemetrySdk(
       sdk =
           new ExtendedOpenTelemetrySdkWrapper(
               sdk, ConfigPropertiesBackedConfigProvider.create(configProperties));
-    } else {
-      // Provide a fake ConfigProperties until we have migrated all runtime configuration
-      // access to use declarative configuration API
-      configProperties =
-          getDeclarativeConfigBridgedProperties(((ExtendedOpenTelemetry) sdk).getConfigProvider());
     }
 
     setForceFlush(sdk);
@@ -62,41 +49,6 @@ public static AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk installOpenTelemetrySdk(
         sdk, SdkAutoconfigureAccess.getResource(autoConfiguredSdk), configProperties);
   }
 
-  // Visible for testing
-  static ConfigProperties getDeclarativeConfigBridgedProperties(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
-    return new DeclarativeConfigPropertiesBridgeBuilder()
-        .addMapping("otel.javaagent", "agent")
-        .addOverride("otel.instrumentation.common.default-enabled", defaultEnabled(configProvider))
-        // these properties are used to initialize the SDK before the configuration file
-        // is loaded for consistency, we pass them to the bridge, so that they can be read
-        // later with the same value from the {@link DeclarativeConfigPropertiesBridge}
-        .addOverride("otel.javaagent.debug", EarlyInitAgentConfig.get().isDebug())
-        .addOverride("otel.javaagent.logging", EarlyInitAgentConfig.get().getLogging())
-        .buildFromInstrumentationConfig(configProvider.getInstrumentationConfig());
-  }
-
-  private static boolean defaultEnabled(ConfigProvider configProvider) {
-    DeclarativeConfigProperties instrumentationConfig = configProvider.getInstrumentationConfig();
-    if (instrumentationConfig == null) {
-      return true;
-    }
-
-    String mode =
-        instrumentationConfig
-            .getStructured("java", empty())
-            .getStructured("agent", empty())
-            .getString("instrumentation_mode", "default");
-
-    switch (mode) {
-      case "none":
-        return false;
-      case "default":
-        return true;
-      default:
-        throw new ConfigurationException("Unknown instrumentation mode: " + mode);
-    }
-  }
-
   private static void setForceFlush(OpenTelemetrySdk sdk) {
     OpenTelemetrySdkAccess.internalSetForceFlush(
         (timeout, unit) -> {
diff --git a/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/sdk/autoconfigure/SdkAutoconfigureAccess.java b/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/sdk/autoconfigure/SdkAutoconfigureAccess.java
index 0063d6d4e762..8650715ff8ba 100644
--- a/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/sdk/autoconfigure/SdkAutoconfigureAccess.java
+++ b/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/sdk/autoconfigure/SdkAutoconfigureAccess.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.OpenTelemetrySdk;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.spi.ConfigProperties;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.resources.Resource;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 
 public final class SdkAutoconfigureAccess {
   private SdkAutoconfigureAccess() {}
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ public static Resource getResource(AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk sdk) {
   }
 
   public static AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk create(
-      OpenTelemetrySdk sdk, Resource resource, ConfigProperties config) {
+      OpenTelemetrySdk sdk, Resource resource, @Nullable ConfigProperties config) {
     return AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk.create(sdk, resource, config);
   }
 }
diff --git a/javaagent-tooling/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/OpenTelemetryInstallerTest.java b/javaagent-tooling/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/OpenTelemetryInstallerTest.java
index bbb2a3fc084f..79e635c88932 100644
--- a/javaagent-tooling/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/OpenTelemetryInstallerTest.java
+++ b/javaagent-tooling/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/OpenTelemetryInstallerTest.java
@@ -6,24 +6,14 @@
 package io.opentelemetry.javaagent.tooling;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
-import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatCode;
 
 import io.opentelemetry.api.GlobalOpenTelemetry;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.OpenTelemetry;
 import io.opentelemetry.javaagent.tooling.config.EarlyInitAgentConfig;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk;
-import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.spi.ConfigProperties;
-import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.spi.ConfigurationException;
-import io.opentelemetry.sdk.extension.incubator.fileconfig.DeclarativeConfiguration;
-import io.opentelemetry.sdk.extension.incubator.fileconfig.SdkConfigProvider;
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.util.function.Supplier;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
-import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.CsvSource;
 
 class OpenTelemetryInstallerTest {
 
@@ -40,42 +30,4 @@ void globalOpenTelemetry() {
 
     assertThat(sdk).isNotNull().isNotEqualTo(OpenTelemetry.noop());
   }
-
-  @ParameterizedTest
-  @CsvSource({
-    "default, true, false",
-    "none, false, false",
-    ", true, false", // empty value means property is not set
-    "invalid, false, true",
-  })
-  void defaultEnabledInDeclarativeConfigPropertiesBridge(
-      String propertyValue, boolean expected, boolean fail) {
-    String mode = propertyValue == null ? "" : "instrumentation_mode: \"" + propertyValue + "\"";
-    String yaml =
-        "file_format: \"1.0-rc.1\"\n"
-            + "instrumentation/development:\n"
-            + "  java:\n"
-            + "    agent:\n"
-            + "      "
-            + mode;
-
-    Supplier<ConfigProperties> configPropertiesSupplier =
-        () ->
-            OpenTelemetryInstaller.getDeclarativeConfigBridgedProperties(
-                SdkConfigProvider.create(
-                    DeclarativeConfiguration.parse(
-                        new ByteArrayInputStream(yaml.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)))));
-
-    if (fail) {
-      assertThatCode(() -> configPropertiesSupplier.get())
-          .isInstanceOf(ConfigurationException.class)
-          .hasMessage("Unknown instrumentation mode: invalid");
-    } else {
-      assertThat(
-              configPropertiesSupplier
-                  .get()
-                  .getBoolean("otel.instrumentation.common.default-enabled"))
-          .isEqualTo(expected);
-    }
-  }
 }