Tom Cruise has won permission to shoot Mission: Impossible 3 at Berlin's historic Reichstag building, Agence France-Presse reported. The decision by Berlin officials reverses a previous ban on filming at the structure, which houses Germany's parliament.

A German parliament spokesman told AFP that, after talks with Babelsberg Studios, Cruise could shoot some scenes outside the Reichstag and on the steps, under tight conditions. The interior of the parliament building, including its famous dome, is to remain off limits, speaker Wolfgang Thierse said, so as not to demean the building. Filming can only take place during the parliamentary recess, and final approval will depend on the script, the spokesman added.

Formally opened on December 5, 1894, the Reichstag only just survived the Nazi era and was heavily bombed during World War II. It did not become a parliament again until 1999, nine years after Germany was reunified, AFP reported.