diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 86daa6313..be653ed59 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package:
 	cd $(plugin);\
 	rm -Rf dist;\
-	python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+	python -m build
 
 pypi:
 	python -m pip install twine -U
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
index 6df7bd372..0f0ad2fc3 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
+++ b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+[project]
+name = "kedro-datasets"
+authors = [
+    {name = "Kedro"}
+]
+description = "Kedro-Datasets is where you can find all of Kedro's data connectors."
+requires-python = ">=3.7, <3.11"
+license = {text = "Apache Software License (Apache 2.0)"}
+dependencies = [
+    "kedro~=0.18.4",
+]
+dynamic = ["readme", "version", "optional-dependencies"]
+
+[project.urls]
+Source = "https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/tree/main/kedro-datasets"
+Documentation = "https://docs.kedro.org"
+Tracker = "https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/issues"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["kedro_datasets*"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+readme = {file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown"}
+version = {attr = "kedro_datasets.__version__"}
+
 [tool.black]
 
 [tool.isort]
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/requirements.txt b/kedro-datasets/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index b5edbb617..000000000
--- a/kedro-datasets/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-kedro~=0.18.4
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/setup.py b/kedro-datasets/setup.py
index c1bf274ea..ef2fe3fe6 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/setup.py
+++ b/kedro-datasets/setup.py
@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
-import re
-from codecs import open
 from itertools import chain
-from os import path
 
-from setuptools import find_packages, setup
-
-name = "kedro-datasets"
-here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
+from setuptools import setup
 
 # at least 1.3 to be able to use XMLDataSet and pandas integration with fsspec
 PANDAS = "pandas>=1.3, <3.0"
@@ -16,21 +10,6 @@
 POLARS = "polars~=0.15.16"
 DELTA = "delta-spark~=1.2.1"
 
-with open("requirements.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    install_requires = [x.strip() for x in f if x.strip()]
-
-with open("test_requirements.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    tests_require = [x.strip() for x in f if x.strip() and not x.startswith("-r")]
-
-# get package version
-package_name = name.replace("-", "_")
-with open(path.join(here, package_name, "__init__.py"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    version = re.search(r'__version__ = ["\']([^"\']+)', f.read()).group(1)
-
-# Get the long description from the README file
-with open(path.join(here, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    readme = f.read()
-
 
 def _collect_requirements(requires):
     return sorted(set(chain.from_iterable(requires.values())))
@@ -151,17 +130,5 @@ def _collect_requirements(requires):
 extras_require["all"] = _collect_requirements(extras_require)
 
 setup(
-    name=name,
-    version=version,
-    description="Kedro-Datasets is where you can find all of Kedro's data connectors.",
-    long_description=readme,
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    url="https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/tree/main/kedro-datasets",
-    install_requires=install_requires,
-    tests_require=tests_require,
-    author="Kedro",
-    python_requires=">=3.7, <3.11",
-    license="Apache Software License (Apache 2.0)",
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests*"]),
     extras_require=extras_require,
 )