diff --git a/class/defaults.yml b/class/defaults.yml
index 0472c8f7..1f65b918 100644
--- a/class/defaults.yml
+++ b/class/defaults.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ parameters:
       "False": true
 
     cilium_helm_values:
+      bgpControlPlane:
+        secretNamespace:
+          # Ensure that Cilium's BGP control plane is configured to look for
+          # peering secrets in the same namespace where Cilium is installed.
+          # Without this, it's not possible to enable the BGP control plane
+          # when installing Cilium with OLM without patching the OLM RBAC.
+          # See also https://github.com/projectsyn/component-cilium/pull/117.
+          name: ${cilium:_namespace}
       cni:
         binPath: /var/lib/cni/bin
         confPath: /var/run/multus/cni/net.d
diff --git a/tests/golden/olm-opensource/cilium/cilium/olm/cluster-network-07-cilium-ciliumconfig.yaml b/tests/golden/olm-opensource/cilium/cilium/olm/cluster-network-07-cilium-ciliumconfig.yaml
index 964edb38..22dd73cd 100644
--- a/tests/golden/olm-opensource/cilium/cilium/olm/cluster-network-07-cilium-ciliumconfig.yaml
+++ b/tests/golden/olm-opensource/cilium/cilium/olm/cluster-network-07-cilium-ciliumconfig.yaml
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ metadata:
   name: cilium
   namespace: cilium
 spec:
+  bgpControlPlane:
+    secretNamespace:
+      name: cilium
   bpf:
     masquerade: false
   cni: