diff --git a/plugins/package-curation-providers/ort-config/src/funTest/kotlin/OrtConfigPackageCurationProviderFunTest.kt b/plugins/package-curation-providers/ort-config/src/funTest/kotlin/OrtConfigPackageCurationProviderFunTest.kt
index 08bb72266a6d0..475bd59e1c133 100644
--- a/plugins/package-curation-providers/ort-config/src/funTest/kotlin/OrtConfigPackageCurationProviderFunTest.kt
+++ b/plugins/package-curation-providers/ort-config/src/funTest/kotlin/OrtConfigPackageCurationProviderFunTest.kt
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ class OrtConfigPackageCurationProviderFunTest : StringSpec({
         curations.filter { it.isApplicable(azureCoreAmqp) } shouldNot beEmpty()
     }
 
+    "The provider returns curations that match the namespace of a package" {
+        val xrd4j = Identifier("Maven:org.niis.xrd4j:foo:0.0.0")
+        val packages = createPackagesFromIds(xrd4j)
+
+        val curations = OrtConfigPackageCurationProvider().getCurationsFor(packages)
+
+        curations.filter { it.isApplicable(xrd4j) } shouldNot beEmpty()
+    }
+
     "The provider does not fail for packages which have no curations" {
         val packages = createPackagesFromIds(Identifier("Some:Bogus:Package:Id"))
 
diff --git a/plugins/package-curation-providers/ort-config/src/main/kotlin/OrtConfigPackageCurationProvider.kt b/plugins/package-curation-providers/ort-config/src/main/kotlin/OrtConfigPackageCurationProvider.kt
index fb4b8a319d4d6..cf41964bc17a6 100644
--- a/plugins/package-curation-providers/ort-config/src/main/kotlin/OrtConfigPackageCurationProvider.kt
+++ b/plugins/package-curation-providers/ort-config/src/main/kotlin/OrtConfigPackageCurationProvider.kt
@@ -64,15 +64,19 @@ open class OrtConfigPackageCurationProvider : PackageCurationProvider {
         packages.flatMapTo(mutableSetOf()) { pkg -> getCurationsFor(pkg.id) }
 
     private fun getCurationsFor(pkgId: Identifier): List<PackageCuration> {
-        val file = curationsDir.resolve("curations").resolve(pkgId.toCurationPath())
-        return if (file.isFile) {
+        // The ORT config repository follows path layout conventions, so curations can be looked up directly.
+        val packageCurationsFile = curationsDir.resolve("curations").resolve(pkgId.toCurationPath())
+
+        // Also consider curations for all packages in a namespace.
+        val namespaceCurationsFile = packageCurationsFile.resolveSibling("_.yml")
+
+        // Return namespace-level curations before package-level curations to allow overriding the former.
+        return listOf(namespaceCurationsFile, packageCurationsFile).filter { it.isFile }.flatMap { file ->
             runCatching {
                 file.readValue<List<PackageCuration>>().filter { it.isApplicable(pkgId) }
             }.getOrElse {
                 throw IOException("Failed parsing package curation from '${file.absolutePath}'.", it)
             }
-        } else {
-            emptyList()
         }
     }
 }