diff --git a/core/Development.php b/core/Development.php
index 60d3dcd81c72745af863d56aa8d19c2485ad9664..a2dd44c673de40565d077016aaedb741bca58696 100644
--- a/core/Development.php
+++ b/core/Development.php
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 namespace Piwik;
 
-use \Exception;
+use Exception;
 
 /**
  * Development related checks and tools. You can enable/disable development using `./console development:enable` and
diff --git a/core/Plugin/Report.php b/core/Plugin/Report.php
index 1db9b77f07c743f4b06838c822d0b084f5d6a1e4..69f4c17953217980e43cab8b5fa716915b6bb637 100644
--- a/core/Plugin/Report.php
+++ b/core/Plugin/Report.php
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use Piwik\Plugins\CoreVisualizations\Visualizations\HtmlTable;
 use Piwik\Translate;
 use Piwik\WidgetsList;
 use Piwik\ViewDataTable\Factory as ViewDataTableFactory;
-use \Exception;
+use Exception;
 
 /**
  * Defines a new report. This class contains all information a report defines except the corresponding API method which
diff --git a/tests/PHPUnit/IntegrationTestCase.php b/tests/PHPUnit/IntegrationTestCase.php
index b255b4f189bffe7596277a41a3531d5f78c5c9d3..a7a6b35f1b64404692125cc6e64adb40b8038181 100755
--- a/tests/PHPUnit/IntegrationTestCase.php
+++ b/tests/PHPUnit/IntegrationTestCase.php
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
  */
 namespace Piwik\Tests;
 
+use Exception;
 use Piwik\API\DocumentationGenerator;
 use Piwik\API\Proxy;
 use Piwik\API\Request;