German short term statistics (STS) on the trade and service sectors are usually compiled as multi source statistics, where data on the smaller enterprises are obtained from administrative sources, while data on large enterprises are collected using a take-all survey. However, implementing the regulation on European business statistics regarding STS in this domain would lead to an inacceptable increase of the response burden under the current operating model. Hence, Destatis launched a project to replace existing take-all surveys for the larger enterprises by probability samples.In this presentation, we elaborate on different sampling design issues that we considered in our project.