diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5ef077289b4..22932f9cea3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@
     </snapshotRepository>
   </distributionManagement>
 
+  <prerequisites>
+    <!-- Note that "prerequisites" not inherited, but used by versions-maven-plugin 1.3.1 -->
+    <maven>${maven.min.version}</maven>
+  </prerequisites>
+
   <properties>
     <!--
     Warning before upgrading Derby to 10.8 : new conversion from BOOLEAN to CHAR.
@@ -85,6 +90,7 @@
     <sonar.skippedModules>sonar-deprecated,sonar-gwt-api,sonar-core-gwt,sonar-testing-harness,sonar-samples
     </sonar.skippedModules>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    <maven.min.version>2.2.1</maven.min.version>
     <jdk.min.version>1.5</jdk.min.version>
 
     <!-- default GWT configuration. It's overridden by the profile 'dev' to speed up compilation in dev environments-->
@@ -288,13 +294,12 @@
                   <onlyWhenRelease>true</onlyWhenRelease>
                 </requireReleaseDeps>
                 <requireJavaVersion>
-                  <message>To build this project JDK ${jdk.min.version} (or upper) is required. Please install it.
-                  </message>
+                  <message>To build this project JDK ${jdk.min.version} (or upper) is required. Please install it.</message>
                   <version>${jdk.min.version}</version>
                 </requireJavaVersion>
                 <requireMavenVersion>
-                  <version>(,2.1.0),(2.1.0,2.2.0),(2.2.0,)</version>
-                  <message>Maven 2.1.0 and 2.2.0 produce incorrect GPG signatures and checksums respectively.</message>
+                  <message>To build this project Maven ${maven.min.version} (or upper) is required. Please install it.</message>
+                  <version>${maven.min.version}</version>
                 </requireMavenVersion>
                 <bannedDependencies>
                   <!-- See SONAR-2512 -->