diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index 5d40466..af110d1 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 plugins {
-    // Apply the Java Gradle plugin development plugin to add support for developing Gradle plugins
-    checkstyle
     `java-library`
-    `version-catalog`
-    `maven-publish`
-    signing
-    id("io.github.gradle-nexus.publish-plugin") version "2.0.0"
 }
 
-val group: String by project
 val edcScmUrl: String by project
 val edcScmConnection: String by project
 
+buildscript {
+    dependencies {
+        val edcGradlePluginsVersion: String by project
+        classpath("org.eclipse.edc.edc-build:org.eclipse.edc.edc-build.gradle.plugin:${edcGradlePluginsVersion}")
+    }
+}
+
 allprojects {
-    apply(plugin = "checkstyle")
-    apply(plugin = "maven-publish")
+    apply(plugin = "${group}.edc-build")
 
     // let's not generate any reports because that is done from within the GitHub Actions workflow
     tasks.withType<Checkstyle> {
@@ -24,72 +23,11 @@ allprojects {
         }
     }
 
-    tasks.withType<Jar> {
-        duplicatesStrategy = DuplicatesStrategy.INCLUDE
-        metaInf {
-            from("${rootProject.projectDir.path}/NOTICE.md")
-            from("${rootProject.projectDir.path}/LICENSE")
+    configure<org.eclipse.edc.plugins.edcbuild.extensions.BuildExtension> {
+        pom {
+            scmUrl.set(edcScmUrl)
+            scmConnection.set(edcScmConnection)
         }
     }
 
-    afterEvaluate {
-        // values needed for publishing
-        val websiteUrl: String by project
-        val developerId: String by project
-        val developerName: String by project
-        val developerEmail: String by project
-        val scmConnection: String by project
-        val scmUrl: String by project
-        publishing {
-            publications.forEach { i ->
-                val mp = (i as MavenPublication)
-                mp.pom {
-                    name.set(project.name)
-                    description.set("Runtime metamodel for annotations of the Eclipse Dataspace Components")
-                    url.set(websiteUrl)
-
-                    licenses {
-                        license {
-                            name.set("The Apache License, Version 2.0")
-                            url.set("http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt")
-                        }
-                        developers {
-                            developer {
-                                id.set(developerId)
-                                name.set(developerName)
-                                email.set(developerEmail)
-                            }
-                        }
-                        scm {
-                            connection.set(scmConnection)
-                            url.set(scmUrl)
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            if (!project.hasProperty("skip.signing")) {
-                signing {
-                    useGpgCmd()
-                    sign(publishing.publications)
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-}
-// configure checkstyle version
-checkstyle {
-    toolVersion = "10.0"
-    maxErrors = 0 // does not tolerate errors
 }
-
-nexusPublishing {
-    repositories {
-        sonatype {
-            nexusUrl.set(uri("https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/"))
-            snapshotRepositoryUrl.set(uri("https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/"))
-            username.set(System.getenv("OSSRH_USER") ?: return@sonatype)
-            password.set(System.getenv("OSSRH_PASSWORD") ?: return@sonatype)
-        }
-    }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 9f8dd1a..bb90a44 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 group=org.eclipse.edc
 version=0.6.1-SNAPSHOT
 
+edcGradlePluginsVersion=0.6.1-SNAPSHOT
+
 edcScmUrl=https://github.com/eclipse-edc/Runtime-Metamodel
 edcScmConnection=scm:git:git@github.com:eclipse-edc/Runtime-Metamodel.git
-# used for publishing artifacts and plugins
-developerId=mspiekermann
-developerName=Markus Spiekermann
-developerEmail=markus.spiekermann@isst.fraunhofer.de
-scmConnection=scm:git:git@github.com:eclipse-dataspaceconnector/GradlePlugins.git
-websiteUrl=https://github.com/eclipse-dataspaceconnector/GradlePlugins.git
-scmUrl=https://github.com/eclipse-dataspaceconnector/GradlePlugins.git