diff --git a/etc/checkstyle-configuration.xml b/etc/checkstyle-configuration.xml
index 0657a0d0..a6d95db3 100644
--- a/etc/checkstyle-configuration.xml
+++ b/etc/checkstyle-configuration.xml
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@
     <module name="MethodLength"/>
     <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
     <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+    <module name="EmptyLineSeparator">
+      <property name="allowMultipleEmptyLines" value="false"/>
+      <property name="allowMultipleEmptyLinesInsideClassMembers" value="false"/>
+      <property name="allowNoEmptyLineBetweenFields" value="true"/>
+    </module>
+
     <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter">
       <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_INIT,BNOT,DEC,DOT,INC,LNOT,UNARY_MINUS,UNARY_PLUS"/>
     </module>