diff --git a/import_api_app/models/KafkaTopics.py b/import_api_app/models/KafkaTopics.py
index 21658b64f7c1268fe413b1f57f9fc1a43ad5e7a1..f357386d8bd315b93a00fdf0016700c2572612bc 100644
--- a/import_api_app/models/KafkaTopics.py
+++ b/import_api_app/models/KafkaTopics.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def list_topics():
 
 # It also deletes the topics if it already exists if the
 # delete_if_already_exists flag is set to true
-def create_topics(topics, delete_if_already_exist):
+def create_topics(topics):
     admin_client = KafkaAdminClient(
         bootstrap_servers=current_app.config['kafka-broker-url'],
         client_id='import-api'
@@ -39,23 +39,22 @@ def create_topics(topics, delete_if_already_exist):
         current_app.logger.error(message)
         raise ImportApiError(message)
 
-    if delete_if_already_exist:
-        topic_to_delete = []
-        for topic in topics:
-            if topic in current_topics:
-                topic_to_delete.append(topic)
+    topic_to_delete = []
+    for topic in topics:
+        if topic in current_topics:
+            topic_to_delete.append(topic)
 
-        try:
-            admin_client.delete_topics(topic_to_delete)
-        except KafkaError:
-            message = "Problem when removing already existing topics :" + ", ".join(topic_to_delete)
-            current_app.logger.error(message)
-            raise ImportApiError(message)
+    try:
+        admin_client.delete_topics(topic_to_delete)
+    except KafkaError:
+        message = "Problem when removing already existing topics :" + ", ".join(topic_to_delete)
+        current_app.logger.error(message)
+        raise ImportApiError(message)
 
-        # wait that topics are deleted
-        # todo Does that make sense ? Does it take longer when the topic is full of messages ?
-        # todo : do a loop until the exception is notopics created is not raised any more
-        time.sleep(0.1)
+    # wait that topics are deleted
+    # todo Does that make sense ? Does it take longer when the topic is full of messages ?
+    # todo : do a loop until the exception is notopics created is not raised any more
+    time.sleep(0.1)
 
     new_topic_list = []
 
@@ -66,9 +65,9 @@ def create_topics(topics, delete_if_already_exist):
     try:
         admin_client.create_topics(new_topic_list)
     except KafkaError:
-        message = "Problem when creating new topics :" + ", ".join(topics)
+        message = "Problem when creating new topics :" + ", ".join(topics)+" e.message()"
         current_app.logger.error(message)
-        return {'error': message}, 500
+        raise ImportApiError(message)
     return {
         'success': "Topics created : " + ", ".join(topics)
     }
diff --git a/import_api_app/resources/JobStart.py b/import_api_app/resources/JobStart.py
index e829398826bf70cd214125ea937a17f6c6466e8a..c04156a12fcc45044ddabc1f6357caf889702c3e 100644
--- a/import_api_app/resources/JobStart.py
+++ b/import_api_app/resources/JobStart.py
@@ -26,17 +26,21 @@ class JobStart(Resource):
         # todo take care of creation of process_id-reporting
         job_topic = f"{process_id}-{job_name}"
         job_reporting_topic = f"{process_id}-{job_name}-reporting"
-        process_reporting_topic = f"{process_id}-reporting"
 
         topics = [
             job_topic,
             job_reporting_topic,
         ]
 
-        # create job topics
+        # if we are in the first step, text-file-validation, we create the generic reporting topic
+        # (and remove its content if it already exists)
+        if job_name == 'text-file-validation':
+            process_reporting_topic = f"{process_id}-reporting"
+            topics.append(process_reporting_topic)
+
+            # create job topics
         try:
             create_topics(topics, True)
-            create_topics([process_reporting_topic], False)
         except ImportApiError as e:
             return {'error': e.message}, 500