diff --git a/cmake/features.cmake b/cmake/features.cmake
index fe1b8919b51212..adb1fad25238da 100644
--- a/cmake/features.cmake
+++ b/cmake/features.cmake
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ Supported values:\
 
 ie_option (ENABLE_PROFILING_FIRST_INFERENCE "Build with ITT tracing of first inference time." ON)
 
-ie_option (ENABLE_DOCS "Build docs using Doxygen" OFF)
-
 ie_option(ENABLE_TEMPLATE_PLUGIN "Register template plugin into plugins.xml" OFF)
 
 ie_option_enum(SELECTIVE_BUILD "Enable OpenVINO conditional compilation or statistics collection. \
@@ -33,6 +31,9 @@ ie_option(ENABLE_ERROR_HIGHLIGHT "Highlight errors and warnings during compile t
 find_package(PythonLibs 3 QUIET)
 ie_dependent_option (ENABLE_PYTHON "enables ie python bridge build" OFF "PYTHONLIBS_FOUND" OFF)
 
+find_package(PythonInterp 3 QUIET)
+ie_dependent_option (ENABLE_DOCS "Build docs using Doxygen" OFF "PYTHONINTERP_FOUND" OFF)
+
 #
 # enable or disable output from NGRAPH_DEBUG statements
 #
diff --git a/openvino/conditional_compilation/CMakeLists.txt b/openvino/conditional_compilation/CMakeLists.txt
index 4a27ac50b7cb84..1db12d4eefbd0a 100644
--- a/openvino/conditional_compilation/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/openvino/conditional_compilation/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ elseif(SELECTIVE_BUILD STREQUAL "ON")
         message(FATAL_ERROR "In case SELECTIVE_BUILD is enabled, the SELECTIVE_BUILD_STAT variable should contain the path to the collected InelSEAPI statistics.\
  Usage: -DSELECTIVE_BUILD=ON -DSELECTIVE_BUILD_STAT=/path/*.csv")
     endif()
-    find_package (PythonInterp REQUIRED)
-    if(NOT PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR EQUAL 3)
-        message(FATAL_ERROR " Python3 wasn't found!")
-    endif()
+    find_package (PythonInterp 3 REQUIRED)
 
     file(GLOB STAT_FILES ${SELECTIVE_BUILD_STAT})
 
diff --git a/tools/CMakeLists.txt b/tools/CMakeLists.txt
index 0a09df95faa8bc..fdc6d9ef11a8f4 100644
--- a/tools/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tools/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-2021 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.13)
+
 project(python_tools)
 
 if(NOT DEFINED OpenVINO_MAIN_SOURCE_DIR)
     find_package(InferenceEngineDeveloperPackage QUIET)
 endif()
 
-find_package(PythonInterp 3 REQUIRED)
-set(PYTHON_VERSION python${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR})
+if(ENABLE_PYTHON)
+    find_package(PythonInterp 3 REQUIRED)
+    set(PYTHON_VERSION python${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR})
 
-set(TARGET_NAME "python_tools")
+    set(TARGET_NAME "python_tools")
 
-if(WIN32)
-    set(PYTHON_BRIDGE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/$<CONFIG>/python_api/${PYTHON_VERSION}/openvino)
-else()
-    set(PYTHON_BRIDGE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/python_api/${PYTHON_VERSION}/openvino)
-endif()
+    if(WIN32)
+        set(PYTHON_BRIDGE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/$<CONFIG>/python_api/${PYTHON_VERSION}/openvino)
+    else()
+        set(PYTHON_BRIDGE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/python_api/${PYTHON_VERSION}/openvino)
+    endif()
 
-if(ENABLE_PYTHON)
     # creates a copy inside bin directory for developers to have ability running python benchmark_app
     add_custom_target(${TARGET_NAME} ALL
         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${PYTHON_BRIDGE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/tools