diff --git a/core/modules/hal/hal.services.yml b/core/modules/hal/hal.services.yml
index 1560a62..7e40df0 100644
--- a/core/modules/hal/hal.services.yml
+++ b/core/modules/hal/hal.services.yml
@@ -26,11 +26,3 @@ services:
     class: Drupal\hal\Encoder\JsonEncoder
     tags:
       - { name: encoder, priority: 10, format: hal_json }
-  hal.exception_subscriber:
-    class: Drupal\hal\EventSubscriber\HalJsonExceptionSubscriber
-    tags:
-      - { name: event_subscriber }
-  hal.subscriber:
-    class: Drupal\hal\HalSubscriber
-    tags:
-      - { name: event_subscriber }
diff --git a/core/modules/hal/src/EventSubscriber/HalJsonExceptionSubscriber.php b/core/modules/hal/src/EventSubscriber/HalJsonExceptionSubscriber.php
deleted file mode 100644
index d8ec0be..0000000
--- a/core/modules/hal/src/EventSubscriber/HalJsonExceptionSubscriber.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-/**
- * @file
- * Contains \Drupal\hal\EventSubscriber\HalJsonExceptionSubscriber.
- */
-
-namespace Drupal\hal\EventSubscriber;
-
-use Drupal\Core\Utility\Error;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\JsonResponse;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseForExceptionEvent;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpExceptionInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\KernelEvents;
-
-/**
- * Provides exception pages for hal_json requests.
- */
-class HalJsonExceptionSubscriber implements EventSubscriberInterface {
-
-  /**
-   * Handles any exception as a generic error page for HAL_JSON.
-   *
-   * @todo This should probably check the error reporting level.
-   *
-   * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseForExceptionEvent $event
-   *   The event to process.
-   */
-  protected function onHalJson(GetResponseForExceptionEvent $event) {
-    $exception = $event->getException();
-    $error = Error::decodeException($exception);
-
-    // Display the message if the current error reporting level allows this type
-    // of message to be displayed,
-    $data = NULL;
-    if (error_displayable($error) && $message = $exception->getMessage()) {
-      $data = ['error' => sprintf('A fatal error occurred: %s', $message)];
-    }
-
-    $response = new JsonResponse($data, Response::HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
-    $response->headers->set('Content-type', 'application/hal+json');
-    if ($exception instanceof HttpExceptionInterface) {
-      $response->setStatusCode($exception->getStatusCode());
-    }
-
-    $event->setResponse($response);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Handles errors for this subscriber.
-   *
-   * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseForExceptionEvent $event
-   *   The event to process.
-   */
-  public function onException(GetResponseForExceptionEvent $event) {
-    $format = $event->getRequest()->getRequestFormat();
-
-    if ($format == 'hal_json') {
-      $this->onHalJson($event);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public static function getSubscribedEvents() {
-    $events[KernelEvents::EXCEPTION][] = ['onException', -250];
-    return $events;
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/core/modules/hal/src/HalSubscriber.php b/core/modules/hal/src/HalSubscriber.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 93a70bb..0000000
--- a/core/modules/hal/src/HalSubscriber.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-/**
- * @file
- * Contains \Drupal\hal\HalSubscriber.
- */
-
-namespace Drupal\hal;
-
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\KernelEvents;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseEvent;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
-
-/**
- * Subscribes to the kernel request event to add HAL media types.
- */
-class HalSubscriber implements EventSubscriberInterface {
-
-  /**
-   * Registers HAL formats with the Request class.
-   *
-   * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\GetResponseEvent $event
-   *   The event to process.
-   */
-  public function onKernelRequest(GetResponseEvent $event) {
-    $request = $event->getRequest();
-    $request->setFormat('hal_json', 'application/hal+json');
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Registers the methods in this class that should be listeners.
-   *
-   * @return array
-   *   An array of event listener definitions.
-   */
-  static function getSubscribedEvents() {
-    $events[KernelEvents::REQUEST][] = array('onKernelRequest', 40);
-    return $events;
-  }
-
-}