diff --git a/src/nbi/service/rest_server/nbi_plugins/ietf_l3vpn/Handlers.py b/src/nbi/service/rest_server/nbi_plugins/ietf_l3vpn/Handlers.py
index cb3bd0ba2501bd3e4c79adf24ebdb0be0859a026..1f399070aa2dbd0f9b22d32e15574b7bc38315ff 100644
--- a/src/nbi/service/rest_server/nbi_plugins/ietf_l3vpn/Handlers.py
+++ b/src/nbi/service/rest_server/nbi_plugins/ietf_l3vpn/Handlers.py
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ def process_site(site : Dict, errors : List[Dict]) -> None:
 
     # site_static_routing: (lan-range, lan-prefix-len, lan-tag) => next-hop
     site_static_routing : Dict[Tuple[str, str], str] = {}
-    site_routing_protocols : Dict = site.get('routing-protocols', dict()).get('routing-protocol', list())
+    site_routing_protocols : Dict = site.get('routing-protocols', dict())
     site_routing_protocol : List = site_routing_protocols.get('routing-protocol', list())
     for rt_proto in site_routing_protocol:
         if rt_proto['type'] != 'ietf-l3vpn-svc:static':