Given a regular Gumm category C such that any regular epimorphism is effective for descent, we prove that any Birkhoff subcategory X in C gives rise to an admissible Galois structure. This result allows one to consider some new applications of the categorical Galois theory in the context of topological algebras. Given a regular Mal'cev category C, we first characterize the coverings of the Galois structurē 1 induced by the subcategory C Ab of the abelian objects in C. Then we consider C as a subcategory of the category Eq(C) of the equivalence relations in C, and we characterize the coverings of the corresponding Galois structure¯ 2 . By composing the Galois structures¯ 1 and¯ 2 we obtain the Galois structure¯ induced by C Ab as a subcategory of Eq(C). We give the characterization of the¯ -coverings in terms of the coverings of¯ 1 and¯ 2 .