Avicou, Chalendar and Partington proved in [3] that an (unbounded) operator (Af ) = G · f ′ on the classical Hardy space generates a C 0 semigroup of composition operators if and only if it generates a quasicontractive semigroup. Here we prove that if such an operator A generates a C 0 semigroup, then it is automatically a semigroup of composition operators, so that the condition of quasicontractivity of the semigroup in the cited result is not necessary. Our result applies to a rather general class of Banach spaces of analytic functions in the unit disc.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 47B35 (primary).